Programming Forums - View Single Post - register_shutdown_function() not behaving as expected

Sane · Jan 17th, 2008, 4:51 PM

I'm having permissions trouble with the server space I haven't yet been able to run PHP scripts on. I'll get back to you when I resolve that.

I don't know much about what you're trying to accomplish. I'm not sure if many do. But are you sure it's something standard? Seems unlikely that a user abort could trigger a function consistently.

I'm also wondering... maybe it only knows that the user aborted when it attempts to send a packet of data to the client, and sees that it's disconnected. When you've got the client hanging on a 30 second timeout, there's no data being transferred, right? So how would it know that the user clicked stop, unless there's some hidden communication going on? Maybe you could try outputting an infinite loop of numbers or something, and set a max running time on the script. Replace this with your sleep timeout.

Jan 17th, 2008, 4:51 PM	#6
Sane Programming Guru Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Ontario Posts: 1,886 Rep Power: 5	Re: register_shutdown_function() not behaving as expected I'm having permissions trouble with the server space I haven't yet been able to run PHP scripts on. I'll get back to you when I resolve that. I don't know much about what you're trying to accomplish. I'm not sure if many do. But are you sure it's something standard? Seems unlikely that a user abort could trigger a function consistently. I'm also wondering... maybe it only knows that the user aborted when it attempts to send a packet of data to the client, and sees that it's disconnected. When you've got the client hanging on a 30 second timeout, there's no data being transferred, right? So how would it know that the user clicked stop, unless there's some hidden communication going on? Maybe you could try outputting an infinite loop of numbers or something, and set a max running time on the script. Replace this with your sleep timeout.