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Hi I am working on a chat application and am a bit stuck...In the database I have a field status which is set 1 for online and 0 for offline (PHP/MySQL)(at time of logging in/out), this shows the users status on a webpage. What I need is to know if there is a way I can set a timer so that if the user has been inactive for X amount of time, the database is auto updated and user is offline (1 set to 0). Thanks for any help I recieve

I like the sound of this, have you any idea how i would go about doing it? Do you know if there are any good tutorials I could follow? Thanks very much for your help

Thanks for the advice thats great do you know of any good tutorials to give me an idea how to do it? Thanks again

Hi, I have been working on an 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? I have been looking at other forums who 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; will the code go on every page of the site? Thanks in advance for any replies