Online/offline function

[palpie]

I have a site on which you login with a user name and password. Every time the authorized user enters a page, the user database table is updated to tell that this specific user is online. When the user press the logout button, the value shall be set to offline. This I have managed to do.

But what happens if the user closes the browser without pressing the logout button? Is it possible to, for example, set a property in the database cell to change to default value after, like, 10 minutes from last update?

Are there any better ways to do this?

[djg_uk]

Hi Peter,

The only way I can think of is to ensure that each time the user executes a script it sets the time in the database, and if the user doesn't execute a script within ten minutes, they get logged out. If the click logout, the time is set to zero.

Regards,

David

[Anon]

That sounds just like what I'm looking for. But how do I do it?