Can closing the browser terminate the PHP script on the server?

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PHP won’t notice that the browser closed the connection unless it tries to output something (e.g. echo). If it fails to output something, the script will be terminated unless ignore_user_abort is On.

So the script will terminate only if the following conditions are met:

  • the script attempts to output something (because the script won’t notice that the user aborted the connection until then)
  • AND php’s ignore_user_abort setting is off (if the setting is off, php will terminate the script if fails to output something)

You can avoid the script from terminating by enabling ignore_user_abort.

You can use connection_aborted() at anytime to check is the browser aborted the request.

A script can terminate unexpectedly for other reasons (e.g. max execution time, exception, etc); so you should make use of transactions, so that half-finished changes are canceled if the script terminates abnormally.

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