Disconnect when user leaves the page

[bitcloud]

Hi,

I've noticed that sometimes users stay in the chat room after they've closed the window (for ages infact)

is there some javascript way that a window/tab close would signal a disconnect from the chat room?

[phpfreechat]

is there some javascript way that a window/tab close would signal a disconnect from the chat room?

In KHTML browser (Safar, Konqueror) : Yes
In IE : No
In FF : No

Maybe it's doable, but I didn't find a way to do it... please explain to me how and I will write the code.

[bitcloud]

... i'm drawing a blank

either way, is there a setting for auto timeout after x amount of inaction or something? i've got a user thats been apparently connected for the past 4 hours (long after he's logged out of the site)

[bitcloud]

also, i've tried to kick the user, but he still shows up in the "whoisonline.php" even though he is now out of the chat room... chosen nickname is now in use so the user won't be able to rejoin...

seems like theres a bug there, as well as a bug in the /kick code..

[phpfreechat]

Yes there is a timeout.
By default it's 20 seconds.

If a user close his window he will be disconnected from the chat in the next 20 seconds.

[bitcloud]

the users disappeared now finally after I added $params["quit_on_closedwindow"] = true;


he may have left the browser window open or something... i'd not worry about this one for now.. i'll see if its recurring and let you know...

[bitcloud]

Hey i'm getting this quite often actually... i'm sure the users are probably just forgetting that the window is open and leaving their computers on, but I'd really like to put in some kind of "if chat room is inactive for X amount of time disconnect users"

or "if user is inactive for x amount of time disconnect that user"

do you know how I might do this? (or do you have any plan to implement this?)

[permutations]

I would like this option, too. And/or an "away" signifier - something that comes up after a specified period of time to say the user is inactive.

[permutations]

I finished the "away" button command. It's packaged in with a module for embedding phpFreeChat within Drupal. To get the code and bitmaps, look in the "extras" directory. The directory extras/commands has the away script. The directory extras/themes/Drupal has the interface customizations and bitmaps.

http://www.permutations.com/drupal/phpfreechat.php

This package also will be uploaded to Drupal.org in the next day or so - I'm still learning how to use CVS.