Tracking the online users of a website

[fiddy]

Hi,

I am looking for a way to track users who are logged in to my website. I thought of maintaining it in the DB and reset that DB entry when they logout. But, If the user go's out without logging out (by clicking the close button in the browser), it will show the status of the user as online always.

Expecting help related to this....

Thanks,
Fiddy.[color=black][/color]

[vbnullchar]

i use this on my site.

place this on top of your page

[code]  function remInActiveUsers() {
    $timeout = time()-(10*60);
    $query = "update members set mem_online=false, mem_session_id='' WHERE u_timestamp < '$timeout'";
    $this->query($query);
    }[/code]

add user after logging onyour site

[code]    function addActiveUsers($id){
    $time = time();
    $ip  = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
    $query = "INSERT INTO forum_active_users(u_userid, u_timestamp, u_ip) VALUES('$id','$time','$ip')";
    $this->query($query);
    }[/code]

[fiddy]

Hi,

Thanks for your help. Will this work if i close the window and login again instantly.

Thanks
Fiddy

[fiddy]

Thanks friends ..

[Daniel0]

vbnullchar: Why not just use this query: [code]DELETE FROM forum_active_users WHERE u_timestamp='{$timeout}';[/code] Then you wont end up with a lot of rows in that table.

[fiddy]

Ok. Thanks for your guidence.