Re: executing a script on browser exit?

Since HTTP is a stateless protocol there is no way to do what you want (detect user leaving site or browser shutdown) on the server-side. You'll have to use client-side scripting (like JavaScript) for that sort of thing. Regards, Jesper Juhl juhl@eisenstein.dk >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Oprindelig meddelelse >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Den 8/31/00, 9:55:06 PM, skrev csimons@cdwebstudios.com (Craig Simons) til emnet [PHP] executing a script on browser exit?: > Hello all! I've only recently picked up PHP, but I'm starting to gett the > hang of it. My question is this: is there any way to execute a script when > the user leaves the site or closes the window? My current design sets a > cookie that tracks the number of pages per session that a user views. When > the user exits the site, I would like to write that number to a file. I'm > sure I could do the same thing by reading/writing to file every page, but > that seems like quite the waste of system resources. Does anyone have any > ideas or design alternatives? > - Craig Simons > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net