On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 20:49 +0530, Nibin V M wrote: > Hello, > > I need to run a few commands when a user close the browser tab. That is, I > have a php page ( index.php ) and it will create a temporary file to track > some stuffs. That temporary file should be removed, when the user close the > browser tab. Is there any way to achieve this? > > Thank you, > Not reliably. There are events in Javascript that you can use to trigger an Ajax call (such as onbeforeunload and onunload) but these work slightly differently from browser to browser and may not allow you to execute anything on the browser if the user is navigating away from the site or closing the tab/window. Why can't you use the session for this, and allow the session to expire after a certain period of inactivity, which would be better than reinventing what sounds like session behaviour. -- Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
