[SOLVED] Get off my website...

[phpretard]

Is there a time redirect I can code that will (in theory) set a cookie or session when a visitor hits my site and if they sit dormant too long will redirect them to another site (of mine)?

 

<?php

$Intial=time();

$HowLong=???;

$_SESSION['BeatIT']=$Intial;

if ($_SESSION['BeatIT'] < "$HowLong"){

// redirect here

}

?>

 

Any thoughts?

[jhlove]

if ($_SESSION['BeatIT'] < "$HowLong"){

 

// redirect here

header("location: url ");

 

}

 

[ngreenwood6]

You could set a cookie with a timestamp. On every page you could check that cookies time with the current time and if it has been more than 5 minutes redirect to another page.

[rhodesa]

You can keep the value in the session, but if they just sit there, without navigating anywhere, it won't do anything. if you want to change it without there interaction, you will need to use JavaScript and setTimeout()

[ngreenwood6]

if ($_SESSION['BeatIT'] < "$HowLong"){

 

// redirect here

header("location: url ");

 

}

 

This isnt going to work because that would always be true. For instance

 

if(1:00 < 2:00)

 

because if you set the current time in a session value and check if it is less than the current time it alwasy will be there would have to be more to it than just that

 

edit: oh yeah and you couldnt compare that to minutes

[iarp]

JavaScript or Cron job, php alone can't do what you want as it requires the user the do something in order to update its time. JavaScript can update time itself and cron jobs run at timed intervals.

[phpretard]

I know how and javascript would do fine I supose.

 

Any pointers on the Cron?

 

Would I set a time() value in a DB?

[iarp]

Set both the maximum time allowed and the last-done-something-on-a-page(like NOW()) time in another session variable (to save mysql resources if you want) then just compare those.

[benphelps]

Untested!

 

<?

$initial_visit = time();
$whentoleave = $initial_visit+(60*60); // one hour ? change this to what you want

if(!isset($_COOKIE['firstvisit'])){

// set the cookie
setcookie('firstvisit', $initial_visit, $whentoleave);
}
else {

// check the cookie
$first_visit = $_COOKIE['firstvisit'];
if($whentoleave <= $first_visit){
	header("Location: http://yournextsite.com/");
}
else {
	// they can stay	
}
}

// you could change the cookie name, and base64 the value if you
// dont want them to know what the cookie being set is, they could
// just change the cookie and stay on the site if they knew

?>

[phpretard]

Thank you all!

[samshel]

Cron alone will not work, as even if you find inside the CRON that the user has expired, you can tell the page to redirect only upon refresh..

 

the best solution here is JS.

 

<script>
var startDate = new Date();
var startTime = startDate.getTime();
function checkDiff(stTime) {
   var endDate = new Date();
   var endTime = endDate.getTime();
   if(endTime - stTime >= 30000) {
       window.location.href = "http://www.phpfreaks.com";//redirect here
   } else {
       setTimeout("checkDiff("+stTime+")", 5000);
   }
}
checkDiff(startTime);
</script>

on test page.....