Yeah, big trouble....I'm thinking the client's just retarded. ;~)
Bill Moseley wrote:
> At 05:20 PM 11/20/00 -0600, Trey Connell wrote:
> >The latter will be accomplished with cookies and the first rule will be
> >enforced with a "loggedin" flag in the database. My problem lies in the user
> >not explicitly clicking logout when they leave the site. If they explicitly
> >click logout, i can change the "loggedin" flag to false so that they can
> enter
> >again the next time they try.
> >
> >However, if they do not explicitly logout, I cannot fire the code to change
> >the flag in the database.
>
> That's where cron comes in. Just make your flag a time, and update it each
> request. cron then removes any that are older than some preset time and
> *poof* they are then logged out. They try to access again and you see they
> have a cookie, yet are logged out and you say "Sorry, you session has
> expired".
>
> >So basically I want to set a cookie that will allow them to enter the site
> >under their userid, but I can't allow them to enter if they are currently
> >logged in from elsewhere.
>
> Why? What if they want two windows open at the same time? Is that
> allowed? That design limitation sounds like it's going to make trouble.
>
> Bill Moseley
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