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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.

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...

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?

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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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