robcrozier Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 Hi all, i want to find a simple way of incorporating into my website the number of people which are currently viewing. I just want to be able to display a simple message saying "there are ??? people online". How can this be obtained using PHP, or does a database need to be used too? thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micah1701 Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 are the users log in? if so, update their "profile" (the table in your database with their username password) with a time stamp each time they view a page. then you can query your table to find all the time stamps that have been updated in the last 5 minutes (or 3 minutes or 10 or whatever you want to use). Thus telling you how many people are actively using your site. (if you're not talking about logged in users, you can do the same thing with IP address in a table) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evillair Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 You can try one of these: http://giombetti.com/snippets/5 http://www.codango.com/php/fnc/content/?tree=phpin/codesnips/usermana&id=7278310 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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