On Wed, March 5, 2008 2:08 am, Angelo Zanetti wrote:
> I am implementing a system where when a user is logged in and out that
> a
> date time is set in a database for each action for each used. We can
> then
> trace who logged in a and when.
>
> No what I would like to know is how can I record when a user closes
> the
> browser or the session expires? There is no action for these items. So
> what
> would the best way be to keep a record of this? Would the use of a
> cron job
> be appropriate? I read in the archives that the banks use javascript
> but I
> don't want to go that route.
>
> If anyone has any idea how to do this please let me know, thanks in
> advance.
There is no way to know when they quit/closed the browser or even just
walked away and let the session time out.
But you *CAN* easily log the last time they accessed any page, by
adding something like:
$query = "update user_profile set last_access = now()";
$access = mysql_query($query, $connection);
if (!$access){
//error handling here
}
So you'll know the last time they actually DID anything, which is
probably more interesting than recording when they closed the browser
if they were looking at some other tab anyway.
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