Re: Re: help avoid multiple login

Mark Rees wrote:

the normal way of doing session 'closing' is by way of 'garbage

collection'

- every now and then a script/process/function is run that 'closes' any sessions which are (according to your criteria) inactive. php has stuff built it that will do this for you to a degree. ----- Is there a way I can access sessions from other users on a script?

what exactly do you mean by that last sentence? I don't quite follow it.

If yes I could store the session id on a table and later check if isset.

You could write the session id into a table when the session is started, along with the start time. Something like sessionid CHAR|starttime DATETIME|lastvisittime DATETIME You could then update this table each time the user visits a page, and delete it if the interval between starttime and lastvisittime is longer than you want. A cron job/scheduled task could be used to clean this table up periodically

a nice description of 'session garbage collection' :-) .... which is pretty much all you can do in terms of 'logoff'.