Re: lock web page when editing

Have a timeout? Store in a database or something that the person has took the page out for editing at X time... Then later when someone tried to edit the page your PHP can check if either the page is not locked, OR 30minutes has passed since the page was locked... Andrew ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob" <whyisityou2@yahoo.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 10:28 PM Subject: [PHP] lock web page when editing > hi > > just seeing how everyone would approach this problem. > > i'm building a content management system and many people can edit a web > page. if someone clicks on "edit" for a web page then i want to lock > that page and not allow anyone else to "edit" the same page until the > first person is done. how would i be able to tell if that first person > is still editing or they have left??? if they close the browser then > the web page would be locked forever. how do i get around that? > > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > -- > 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 > >