Posted by dimo414 on 07/04/06 07:11

> I am writing a similar application and had also though of this method.
> Along with a cron job to log users out after x inactivity; of course,
> then you also have to save the time/date of each check.

If you use sessions, after a certain period of time (if I remember
correctly, the default is 24min of inactivity) the session becomes
invalid.

> I've also looked at sessions but in my testing, using sessions always
> wants to store a cookie. I don't want to require cookies.

Out of curiosity, why not? Just about every website that requires a
login uses cookies, and the people who chose to block all cookies are
no doubt used to that by now. Beyond that, if you modify your php.ini
script, session control can be in the URL, for those who don't allow
cookies.

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