On browser exit

[jamesloi]

Hi

Does anyone know how i am able to delete the contents of a table when i exit the browser. Is this possible on all types of browsers such as opera, mozilla, netscape etc.?

thanks

[nnichols]

There is no method that you can rely on in all browsers with javascript.

The safest way to do this is to use sessions. That way if you expire the session after a certain amount of inactivity you can delete the other data at the same time.

Hope this helps 😉

[jamesloi]

I think i have got my sessions working. Does the session finish when the browser closes or do i need to call for it to close. To be honest i dont know much sessions.

[nnichols]

The session finishes when the browser closes (default setting, but can be changed), but the session data is not destroyed until the garbage collection routine is called.

If you want to use the method I suggested above you will need to write a custom session_handler.

I suggest you have a read through the section of the manual relating to custom session_handlers.