By default, PHP will also stop execution when the browser is closed. See: http://de.php.net/manual/en/features.connection-handling.php on Friday 30 June 2006 09:06, weetat wrote: > Hi all, > > I am using PHP 4.3.2 and MYSQL database. > I think this question has been asked many times, however not solutions. > > The problem is that I have a php script which connect to db and update > data to db which took length of time to be completed. However sometimes > user accidentally close the window browser or kill the window browser. > The php which a server script language will not know that the window > browser has been closed , so the program execution is keep running . > This will choke the memory in the server and thus choke the web page. > > So ,are there ways to stop program from executing when user close the > browser window. > > Thanks > - weetat -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php