05262006 1418 GMT-6

How about this.
If you assign each person a sessionid, you can track them. So, as long
as they are on the site, you id state is yes and your script will
return, x number of sessions currently in use.

wade

Nick Jones wrote:

>Hello list,
>
>I'm trying to figure out a good way to get the current count of users on a page like many popular bulletin board packages use. I've googled around quite a bit and consulted all my textbooks and manuals and come up with nothing.
>
>Basically, I have a page already created and working great with AJAX. It's just a plain HTML page and PHP works in the background serving up the XMLHTTPRequest content. I want to add another request that can hit a PHP script and find out how many users are currently on the HTML page. Then, using AJAX, I can hit the script every 30 seconds or so and get a real-time count of the number of users on the page currently.
>
>Has anyone done anything like this before or have any ideas on the best way to proceed? I do have MySQL installed that I can use if that would help this process along.
>
>Thanks
>-Nick

>


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