Close: You mix both of these ideas. Create a custom session handler. This handler creates user entries in a database. Then when you want to know how many are online you do a count on the number of user entries in the table. Play around with different gc_probability values to tune the efficiency.
On 9/13/05, bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi... > > anybody have pointers to trying to tell who/how long someone is logged > into > a system/site. i've thought about setting a session var, but i'm not sure > how to read/tabulate this var across the entire group of people who'd be > logged in. i've also thought about keeping track in a db tbl.. however, > i'm > still not sure that i've got a good way of tracking who's logged in, and > still on... > > a possible approach would be to have the app periodically update the > system > whenever a logged in user goes from page to page... > > so, any thoughts/ideas/etc... > > -thanks > > bruce > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
