Destroy session on window close

ewannnn

Hi, I have been working on a chat application where when the user logs in, the status field in the database isset to 1 (online), and when logging off set to 0 (offline).
I was wondering if there is a way, using PHP or otherwise, of accomodating for when the user closes the browser manually?
Also I was wondering if there is a way to destroy the session variables when the user exits the browser manually?
I have been pulling my hair out over this all day and i am totally stuck :queasy:. I've looked at other forums for people who have similar problems with replies that say that it is possible to set a timer which automatically logs the user off after a set amount of time but I dont know how to actually do this or where to start.
Thanks in advance for any replies it is very, very much appreciated 🙂
If it will help if i post some of my code please let me know.

dalecosp

You could certainly use a cookie for one of your values, say, "active". Use [man]setcookie[/man] with a time of "0" and it would be "gone" when the browser closed.

ewannnn

Thanks for the advice, would this just be a case as something like:

setcookie("active", time()+0);

On the top of each page?

If I did use this aproach, would all the session variables be destroyed on browser exit? Thanks very, very much again for your help.