Posted by Zoe Brown on 10/25/18 11:26

"Adam" <anon@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:08:29 +0300, Alexey Kulentsov wrote:
>
>>Adam wrote:
>>> I'm trying to track who's logged into a site (without setting flags in
>>> the databses).
>> In php script you have cookies for only current user so you can't do
>>it without database (SQL or text - doesn't matter)
>>
>>> At the moment, each user gets a cookie with "Usr_Name" set if
>>> authentication goes through OK.
>>>
>>> Is there a way of looping through ALL the values of a particular
>>> cookie, eg $_COOKIE['Usr_Name'] ... that would give me an output of
>>> (say):
>>>
>>> Fred
>>> Doris
>>> Bert
>>> etc.
>>
>> 1. Use session for logging users
>> 2. Make database-driven session handler
>> 3. Now you can get list of users by regular SQL query.
>
> I was trying to avoiid touching the current database, but I'll add a
> table if I really have to.
>
>>You can also parse session files in /tmp directory instead of making
>>database-driven handler but I don't think it's good way.
>
> Nope - it's on a hosted server anyway, so I wouldn't get access to the
> /tmp directory.
>
> I guess I'm being lazy, as I thought I could just read the cookies
> (as they're set to timeout after an hour).

read the cookies with what ?

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