Re: Session Expiring

On Fri, April 29, 2005 10:28 am, John Martinez said: > I want to have the page expire after ten minutes of inactivity. For > example, if you goto Travelocity.com and do a search then sit idle for > awhile it refreshes the page with a notice that you've been idle etc. > I want to dupe this but I only know the cheeseball way of using the > meta tag http-equiv-refresh. > > What's a good alternative to using http-eqiuv-refresh? As far as PHP goes, you can expire the session *OR* force them to re-login after time X with the same session easily enough when they hit a new page. But as far as having the browser doing something when it's idle, it's *NOT* going to be PHP! PHP lives on the server. It knows *nothing* about an idle browser. As far as I know, though, the only alternative to the HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" would be some kind of JavaScript timer, which, to me, would be even more cheeseball than HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH"... But that's just me. Why don't you just look at Travelocity.com HTML source. Whatever they are doing, it has to be in there, and it *CANNOT* be in anything server-side. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm