PHP login / logout question

Question

I’m thinking of introducing a small tracking system that will track login time / logout time, and also track who is currently logged in. All this makes sense to me, except for tracking when a user logs out. It is easy enough when the user clicks the "Logout" button, which calls a function that can update the database with the logout time, but what if the user just logs out of the browser. How to create a function that will handle this event, and I assume that there are any other situations that I did not think of when the user exits the php application in an unofficial way. In addition, any links to online tutorials on this subject would be highly appreciated.

Answer 1

The simplest solution is, perhaps, simply marking the user as “active” every time he performs an action on your site (that is, every time a page is created on the server) - you already know how to do it.

And if the user has been marked as “active” for a long time (i.e. more than 5 minutes, for example, maybe more depending on the type of content that you have on your site), you might think that he is not more active - maybe not even on your site, actually.

Of course, you have a couple of minutes of delay before you discover the user is no more ...

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