Sessions/Logout

I am using a rather old version of PHP which is 4.0.5

Why is it when i close the browser, the session files are still in /tmp directory? Wouldn't they be destroyed automatically?


Another thing is i have two frames in a frameset, a left and the main one. I am logging out from my left frame calling logout.php which is using

header("Location: login.php");

to redirect me to the login page. The problem is, the login page is loaded in my left frame! How do i cause the header function to redirect me to a new page by itself?

Thank you.

To destroy the session you have to use session_destroy() I know htere is a global vaiable to mak eit even easier but I don't know what it is.

as for your other problem, did you set the links target for main(or whatever name you gave to the main area of the frameset)?

I have a button for users to specifically logout and this calls session_destroy(). It worked. But I have read somewhere that when you close the browser window, the session will be destroyed too... Not in my case..


As for my other problem, the trick is, how do i specify to the header function to redirect me to a specific frame location? i know i can do this with a normal <a> tag link with the target attribute..but this is a header() function..


thanks for your reply.