[Ugalosh]

Ok, I need a little help.
Or even a point in the right direction.
I need to be able to tell and post it out to a web page when/who is on my website.
There is a login screen, a members mysql database, and the rest of the site is php.
So if you have lead or solution in mind please post, or email.. thanks.

[enygma]

well, in the database, you could have a field where there is a 1 or a 0 and when they log in, the login page changes it to a 1, then when they log out, it changes it to a 0. Then, just make a PHP page that aut-refreshes and goes through that database looking for all of the "1"s...
then you should get a pretty accurate record of who's logged in...

[Cryption]

Sounds like a good idea, but what if the user doesn't log-out? Most people just close their browser window when they're finished. This is something that I've been wrestling w/ for awhile...and the best solution that I've come up w/ is to add a time-out to the sessions. Does anybody else have a better idea?

[Dist]

Well.. Have a small (0 height for example) frame and have it refreshed (by javascript or client pull) and use it to update mysql database. Not a perfect solution, but somewhat better though. And this way you can have session timeout and still have sessions kept up more reliably. (You could also experiment with "session" cookies.)

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[Ugalosh]

A zero frame with javascript to renew the date/time field is going to have to do.
Though I know little php, and even less javascript. Would anyone have a snipet of of code I could modify or at least structure from?
Many thanks,
Ugalosh