logout or timeout?

[JRBeltman]

Hi all,

I am having people logging in and register their username in a session on succesful login.

However when they logout I want to write the date and time to the database so I can track their behaviour.

But what to do when they just close the browser without logging out properly?

How can I write this value to the database?

Any clever solutions?

Cheers

JR
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[sleipnir214]

To the best of my knowledge, you can't. If a user simply closes the browser or points his browser to a location that's not a part of your site, no information will be transmitted to your server. So there's nothing to record. This is just the statelsss, discontinuous nature of HTTP.


If you need to record something, you might use custom session-store handling functions on your site. Create a custom garbage-collecting function which records a "logout" time for session stores it removes.


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[JRBeltman]

Right,
I was afraid of having to do some homework!

Thanks for the link and answer

JR
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