The way I do a "logged on" system is that I have an entry on the user table of "LastClicked". When a user does an action, then it updates that field with Now().
If it's more then 3 or 4 mins. since the LastClicked, I presume they are no longer "online". Matthew Williams wrote: > There's a really nifty feature in vBulletin, mySpace, etc. that shows a user > as being "online now". Does anyone have an ideas how to pull this off in > ColdFusion? My users are logged in with various information being thrust > into the session scope. I'm thinking I'll need to run scheduled task every > 5-10 minutes that checks for a users logged in status, and then updating a > table. Or, maybe there's an easier way? > > > Matthew Williams > Geodesic GraFX > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:316771 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
