Posted by hughie on 12/27/06 19:07

> poll the db for active users.

aha, you have any code for that?

> perhaps your DB could have a meta-data table/row
> update an "active_num_users" each time someone logs in/out
> either a straight-forward increment/decrement or actually test for
> "active/non-idle" users.
> of course to track that, you'd need to also store not-only when someone
> logs in, but their last activity (ie, each time they load a page)

exactly..but I was hoping to find a way to do that from some uber
session or something.
It's starting to look like going the db table way is probably best.

Hughie

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