You could load a hidden 0 width frame with a metarefresh to your script. So every 10 seconds that frame reloads telling your server to take 10 seconds off this users account. When the user closes the window then it stop taking time off and if their time runs out you can have the frame reload the whole page telling the user they are out of time. It could even be a slightly visible frame with a counter. Since its all in frames the user realy wont notice or care, just make sure that your page wont load outside the frame or users could just grab the URL to it and skip the timer part.


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Eric Hodges

In reply to Re: Re: Re: How should a timed session be implemented? by eric256
in thread How should a timed session be implemented? by soon_j

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