Posted by Richard Lynch on 04/29/05 20:52

On Fri, April 29, 2005 10:28 am, John Martinez said:
> I want to have the page expire after ten minutes of inactivity. For
> example, if you goto Travelocity.com and do a search then sit idle for
> awhile it refreshes the page with a notice that you've been idle etc.
> I want to dupe this but I only know the cheeseball way of using the
> meta tag http-equiv-refresh.
>
> What's a good alternative to using http-eqiuv-refresh?

As far as PHP goes, you can expire the session *OR* force them to re-login
after time X with the same session easily enough when they hit a new page.

But as far as having the browser doing something when it's idle, it's
*NOT* going to be PHP!

PHP lives on the server. It knows *nothing* about an idle browser.

As far as I know, though, the only alternative to the HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH"
would be some kind of JavaScript timer, which, to me, would be even more
cheeseball than HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH"... But that's just me.

Why don't you just look at Travelocity.com HTML source. Whatever they are
doing, it has to be in there, and it *CANNOT* be in anything server-side.

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