Re: Trigger an action on session timeout - feature request?

On Nov 12, 2007 3:19 PM, Jake <linux@nittanytravel.com> wrote: > >> Is there any possibility to trigger an action when the session is > >> inactive > >> for some time? I need to log users' login and logout, and so I need to > >> know > >> about logouts caused by timeout. Neither there seems to be a > possibility > >> of a workaround like walking through all my sessions for timeouted ones > >> and destroy them myself. > > if you want it server side, it would have to be some kind of scheduled job > (cron, etc). Most banks have session timeouts using javascript or asp, > client side. You do this with php by putting the session timeout duration > into javascript, then a settimeout and if browser closed... etc.. the > default in php.ini is 24 minutes... u can use this, or use any value...... > then have logout.php clean up > > <?php > > $timeout = ini_get('session.gc_maxlifetime') * 1000 // convert from > seconds > to milliseconds for javascript; > > ?> > > <html> > <head> > <script type="text/javascript"> > <!-- > setTimeout("window.location = 'logout.php'",<?php echo $timeout?>); > // --> > </script> > </head> > <body> > > </body> > </html> To add onto this... you may want to update the timeout each time the user takes an action (onclick, onmousemove, etc). This way, if a user is reading a long contract on his bank statement (for example), then it won't automatically close the page - quite frustrating! =D ~Philip