Re: Need a way to automate user logout

One way is to save the time of last access every time a user requests a page, then poll to find users for whom now() - last_access_time > TIMEOUT. - Lucas On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Christian Calloway wrote: > Damn stateless nature of HTTP, hey everyone, can someone point me or give me > an idea on how I would automatically log out (destroy user sessions and make > note of it in the database) on some type of schedule. I have designed a > security system that depends upon people logging out to determine the amount > of time they have accumalated on their accounts. Of course people do not > always (never) do this, so I need a way to do it for them. We are running > redhat linux, I am sure there is a way to say run a certain script at a > certain time blah blah etc etc. But I am only a programmer, and am > absolutely clueless on the finer points of nix. I can write a script in > perl, php, java, u name it, but how do I have it run on a set schedule? > Thanks > > Christian > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >