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From: Vinay Kannan on 25 Aug 2010 16:32 Hello Guys, Wanted to know if there is a way for us to find out, when a user moves away from our website( closing the window and entering a different url in the address bar ) closing the window i guess, we could use the javascript onclose or something similar but for the user moving away from my website by entering a different URL is what i would like to be able to find out. Thanks, Vinay
From: "Daevid Vincent" on 25 Aug 2010 17:21 > -----Original Message----- > From: Vinay Kannan [mailto:vinykan(a)gmail.com] > > Wanted to know if there is a way for us to find out, when a > user moves away > from our website( closing the window and entering a different > url in the address bar ) > > closing the window i guess, we could use the javascript > onclose or something > similar but for the user moving away from my website by > entering a different URL is what i would like to be > able to find out. Yeah. You and everyone else on the web... ;-) Not possible really. The web (by design) is stateless. This is the same reason that you can't cancel a long running mySQL query if someone hits "Stop" in the browser or leaves the page (and your mySQL server will happily keep churning away and then try to return the data to a non-existant page). It's sort of a "fire and forget" system. Best you can hope for is to keep updating a timestamp to know how long they've been there (and an auto-logout after some amount of inactivity).
From: Karl DeSaulniers on 25 Aug 2010 17:21 I think you can do that with window.focus in javascript. Karl On Aug 25, 2010, at 3:32 PM, Vinay Kannan wrote: > Hello Guys, > > Wanted to know if there is a way for us to find out, when a user > moves away > from our website( closing the window and entering a different url > in the > address bar ) > > closing the window i guess, we could use the javascript onclose or > something > similar but for the user moving away from my website by entering a > different > URL is what i would like to be able to find out. > > Thanks, > Vinay Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com
From: kesavan trichy rengarajan on 25 Aug 2010 17:54 Have a look at this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.onunload <https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.onunload>But, as someone pointed out a few days ago, please do not post stuff that is not related to PHP DB. On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 6:32 AM, Vinay Kannan <vinykan(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Guys, > > Wanted to know if there is a way for us to find out, when a user moves away > from our website( closing the window and entering a different url in the > address bar ) > > closing the window i guess, we could use the javascript onclose or > something > similar but for the user moving away from my website by entering a > different > URL is what i would like to be able to find out. > > Thanks, > Vinay >
From: "Daevid Vincent" on 25 Aug 2010 18:16
Well look at that. Check out this one too: "window.onbeforeunload" http://www.hunlock.com/blogs/Mastering_The_Back_Button_With_Javascript > -----Original Message----- > From: kesavan trichy rengarajan [mailto:k7(a)trk7.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 2:54 PM > To: Vinay Kannan > Cc: PHP DB > Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] finding out if a user left our website ? > > Have a look at this: > https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.onunload > > <https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.onunload>But, as someone > pointed out a few days ago, please do not post stuff that is > not related to > PHP DB. > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 6:32 AM, Vinay Kannan > <vinykan(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello Guys, > > > > Wanted to know if there is a way for us to find out, when a > user moves away > > from our website( closing the window and entering a > different url in the > > address bar ) > > > > closing the window i guess, we could use the javascript onclose or > > something > > similar but for the user moving away from my website by entering a > > different > > URL is what i would like to be able to find out. > > > > Thanks, > > Vinay > > > |