Posted by Colin McKinnon on 09/26/05 12:10

Mikel Astiz wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am looking for a simple way to detect session ends so I can update a
> session table. I am new to PHP and don't understand how such event can be
> handled, since there seems not to be a corresponding overridable function.
> I've found 'register_shutdown_function', but apparently it detects
> connection breaks while the page is being loaded (I'm not sure though).
>
> I supose it will always be possible to control timeouted sessions by
> polling, but I wouldn't like to do so. Of course, client side scripts are
> not enough. I want to handle broken connections and prevent from evil
> users too.
>

RTFM. If a session is not explicitly ended it will be removed by a garbage
collection operation (sessions already have a last active timestamp on
them). If you want to trigger additional events then you'll need to write
your own session handler.

C.

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