Users online

[Kingy]

with my site using sessions, how do i go about finding how many members are online?

I really have no idea how to do this

[monkeytooth]

If your not to familiar with php, or php and mysql together my suggestion would google "PHP Useronline" you'll find a couple free scripts that you can either impliment or build off of, or learn from. Not to sound like I'm brushing you off.. but from ways ive seen it done in the past. It's not a simple task as it sounds.

[Stooney]

It has nothing to do with sessions.  Have a field in your users table that updates every time a user performs an action with the time.  Then to find the users online, run a query selecting the users that have been active within the last 5 mins.

[Northern Flame]

try doing something like this,

you should run this query on

all your pages that your

online users visit

 

mysql_query("UPDATE users SET last_active=NOW() WHERE id='". $_SESSION['id'] ."'");

 

be sure to edit the information to edit your information and to

create a column names last_active

 

then,

$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE last_active > (NOW() - INTERVAL 5 MINUTE)");

 

that will get all your online users that have been online in the last 5 minutes,

if you want to get the information of each one, just use mysql_fetch_array()