How to handle user online status when he/she close the browser?

Question

I am having table to track user online status by setting \'is_online\' field to 1. Now User get logged in the site and shut down his/her system or power down at that time he

Answer 1

you can't. HTTP closes the connection once the page has been delivered. On the server side alone all you could do is checking if a user has requested a page within a certain amount of time.

JavaScript might be your friend. You could use it to create a ping to a php script which then updates the last request timestamp. Once there is no more pinging, the user is gone and you'd know.

If you have trouble with javaScript, a good point to start would be here: http://www.w3schools.com/JS/

You might want to focus on the AJAX and HTTP request stuff.

cu Roman