[SOLVED] Cookie Tracking

[dt_gry]

Hi guys,

 

I have my login system setup, I have included the process at the end of this post. What I want to do is if the user has been logged in for X amount of time, I want to copy their info from Active_Users to Activity_Log and automaticley log them out. How would I achieve this?

 

Login Process:

the user logs in --> cookie is sent --> record is added to Active_Users table in the DB --> user is forwarded to members area.

 

Logout Process:

the user logsout --> record is coppied from Active_Users to Activity_Log --> record is deleted from Active_User --> user is forwarded to logout confirmation page.

 

Thanks guys, any help is really appreciated!

[rhodesa]

Are you saying you want it to automatically happen behind the scenes when someones session is stale? Or if i'm browsing for 30 minutes, once i try to go to a page after that time limit, it logs me out?

 

for stale sessions, you will have to have a cronjob that goes through and cleans house

[dt_gry]

Thanks rhodesa, that helps alot. Is cron jobs capable of calling scripts and executing them or would the cron job do all the work?

 

Thanks Again! 

[rhodesa]

What OS is this on? Cronjob is the scheduling capabilities on linux systems. It's like Scheduled Tasks on Windows. You can use it to run scripts on a schedule.

 

So, what would happen, is you would write a PHP script that would do the clean up, then have cron run the script every 5 minutes or so.

[dt_gry]

Debian if I am not mistaken. Is there any sites that explain cron that you might suggest?

 

Thanks

[rhodesa]

google will give you tons...here is one i found real quick

http://www.adminschoice.com/docs/crontab.htm

 

if it's through a hosting service, you might not have direct access to the crontab. read their FAQ/Knowledge Base...there should be something in there

[dt_gry]

Thanks again rhodesa!

 

Working on it now. XD