in fact....I really need to remove the file ( which will be created for every access - making a copy from another location ). I can't leave that file alone for ever in the user disk space! :( On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Ashley Sheridan <ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > ** > 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 > > > -- Regards.... Nibin. http://TechsWare.in
