Posted by "bruce" on 09/14/05 01:02

any code/pointers to this...

i've been doing the google/search thing and haven't come across anything
which relates to what i'm searching for...

so.. any help in this area would be greatly appreciated!!

i would have thought there would be articles/open course code/apps on this!!

-thanks

bruce


-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Barnett [mailto:juzamjedi@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 2:25 PM
Cc: php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP] trying to figure out the best/efficient way to tell
who is logged into a site..


Close: You mix both of these ideas.

Create a custom session handler. This handler creates user entries in a
database. Then when you want to know how many are online you do a count on
the number of user entries in the table. Play around with different
gc_probability values to tune the efficiency.



On 9/13/05, bruce <bedouglas@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> hi...
>
> anybody have pointers to trying to tell who/how long someone is logged
> into
> a system/site. i've thought about setting a session var, but i'm not sure
> how to read/tabulate this var across the entire group of people who'd be
> logged in. i've also thought about keeping track in a db tbl.. however,
> i'm
> still not sure that i've got a good way of tracking who's logged in, and
> still on...
>
> a possible approach would be to have the app periodically update the
> system
> whenever a logged in user goes from page to page...
>
> so, any thoughts/ideas/etc...
>
> -thanks
>
> bruce
> bedouglas@earthlink.net
>
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