Is there such thing as a timer or only page refresh time limit?

[nutt318]

Well I a page that requires a password to view the contents. Once a user logs in with this password the page times out after 5 minutes and prompt them to reenter their password.

 

So how would I make this page after those 5 mins run another php function? Is there some sort of timer I can have that runs every 5mins without someone actually being on the page?

 

Thanks for your help.

[premiso]

Javascript can do this for you. When it triggers you make it redirect to the logout page to log them out.

[nutt318]

So using Javascript can act as a timer and say every 5mins the timer will run my code to log them out?

[premiso]

So using Javascript can act as a timer and say every 5mins the timer will run my code to log them out?

 

If you set it that when the time is up, it uses location.href to redirect to your logout page which automatically logs them out, yes.

 

If you want a more reliable system, you would need to store a timestamp in the DB of last activity and have a cron job run every minute checking if the activity was more than 5 minutes ago, if so kill the cookies and session which should log them out.