register_shutdown_function and apache...

[Anon]

Something unusual is happening to me and I want to know if this is usual or what I'm missing. I'm trying to use the register_shutdown_function() routine to define a shutdown function that cleans up some files and socket stuph for me when a user aborts the page load (or clicks on a link before the page is done).

I'm not having much luck. Just as a test, I made the following:

function take_it_easy() {
system('echo "Inside abort" >>/path/to/abortdebug');
system("cat /tmp/longsysuse >>/path/to/abortdebug");
}
}

//Handle user aborts
register_shutdown_function("take_it_easy");

Anyone know what's wrong with this?

Sorry if it's already been covered, but the search engine is pooched right now.

--Robert

[Anon]

Nevermind. It's the whole problem that the function is called after the user connection is done. I was outputing stuph to a file with a syntax error. This meant that the line I needed it to get to never was reached.

Silly boy!

--Robert