login and sign out

[blckspder]

Hello,
Ive been looking on the forum for something to help with setting up a login page.
Ive got the basics down. with the form connecting and comparing names. but how do i track how long they have been signed in and entering that time duration and date of login into MySQL and how to kill the session when they click the sign out link? Can someone help or point me to a post on here that will help me?
Thanks.
Antoni

[Sayian]

You can figure out how long they've been signed on by adding a row called "login_time" to your SQL table.

Then, when they login insert time() into the login_time. This will put a unix timestamp into that column.

To kill a session, you need somthing like this

<?
##### logout.php #####

// Clear the session array
$_SESSION = array();

// Destroy the session
session_destroy();

// Send the user back to the homepage
header("Location: /index.php");

?>

HTH