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Users Online Type Thing


Shaun13

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Hi, I am creating a forum and I was wondering how I could create a users online legend at the bottom of the index. I tried something like echo "$myusername" and it will only display your username. How could I accomplish this?

 

~Shaun

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Since I don't know the structure of your forum, I can't quite say. But the basic idea would be to have a column in your users and/or sessions table named $logged_in, and the only values would be 1 for true and 0 for false. Then, run a mysql_query on the table WHERE logged_in = 1.

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Let's say you wanted to log a user out after 10 minutes. Create a new function named whatever you want, and a new column in the table named something like last_activity and set the type to timestamp. In the function, use strtotime to check when the user was last active, and if that was more than 10 minutes ago, unset the session for that user. Put the function in a file, and include/require that for every secure page.

 

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