javascript - how to keep the session active even i opened in multiple tabs in same browser
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i would like to implement one thing.i opened my site in multiple tabs. while i work in one tab others tabs should not be timedout. it should be alive. how to keep alive for other tabs. i used below js to find idle time logout.
<script type="text/javascript">
idleTime = 0;
$(document).ready(function () {
//Increment the idle time counter every minute.
var idleInterval = setInterval("timerIncrement()", 60000); // 1 minute
//Zero the idle timer on mouse movement.
$(this).mousemove(function (e) {
idleTime = 0;
});
$(this).keypress(function (e) {
idleTime = 0;
});
})
function timerIncrement() {
idleTime = idleTime + 1;
if (idleTime > 2) { // 30 minutes
var beforeTime = new Date()
var bminutes = beforeTime.getMinutes();
var bseconds = beforeTime.getSeconds();
var user='<?php echo Auth::getSessionUserFullName();?>';
if(user!='')
{
var timehours=beforeTime.getHours();
var timeoutmin=bminutes+1;
var timeoutseconds=bseconds-1;
if(timeoutseconds>59)
{
timeoutseconds=0;
timeoutmin=timeoutmin+1;
}
if(timeoutmin>59)
{
timeoutmin=0;
timehours=hours+1;
}
if(timehours>24)
{
timehours=0;
}
var ok=confirm("Your session expire time started at "+beforeTime.getHours()+":"+beforeTime.getMinutes()+":"+beforeTime.getSeconds()+".Please click 'OK' before "+timehours+":"+timeoutmin+":"+timeoutseconds+" to stay signed in.");
if(ok)
{
var currentTime = new Date()
var aminutes = currentTime.getMinutes();
var aseconds = currentTime.getSeconds();
var time=aminutes-bminutes;
if(aminutes>bminutes && aseconds>bseconds)
{
alert('Time out!!Please login again to access.');
window.location.href='<? echo APPLICATION_WEBROOT?>auth/logout';
return false;
}
else if(time>=2)
{
alert('Time out!!Please login again to access.');
window.location.href='<? echo APPLICATION_WEBROOT?>auth/logout';
return false;
}
else
{
return true;
}
}
else
{
window.location.href='<? echo APPLICATION_WEBROOT?>auth/logout';
}
}
}
}
</script>
Please help me. how to keep the sessions for all opened tabs.thanks in advance
Answer
Solution:
The session is not tab specific. It is for the whole browser instance.
The session is extended when a user makes a request to the server. So depending on your application, you may have to generate regular requests to the server to extend that session.
For that, you can use the setInterval javascript function to trigger an AJAX call to your PHP backend.
Hope that helps...
BTW: be careful because some browsers do deactivate the tabs which don't have the user focus (Chrome for example) - it will not modify session... but some JS could be suspended.
Answer
Solution:
One of the way I can think of is handle the session yourself in the server.
Here's a system that might work (welcome suggestions of improvement):
1) store your own custom session in server DB, with IP being the unique identifier.
2) whenever user interacts with your server, grab its IP and update the corresponding session stored in server. If that session has already timeout, redirect user to timeout page.
there might be many things that I haven't though through, but in my mind this should be a viable way to maintain session across tabs