Re: [PHP] trying to figure out the best/efficient way to tell who is logged into a site..

- Original Message - From: Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: php.general To: Gustav Wiberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 7:35 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] trying to figure out the best/efficient way to tell who is logged into a site.. Gustav Wiberg wrote: All you

Re: [PHP] trying to figure out the best/efficient way to tell who is logged into a site..

Gustav Wiberg wrote: All you guys, please comment if the code is well or bad written and why... :-) Since you asked, a few things popped out from a security perspective, though I didn't read through your code very thoroughly ?php function chkIfPasswordTrue($un, $pw, $typeUser) {

[PHP] trying to figure out the best/efficient way to tell who is logged into a site..

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..

Re: [PHP] trying to figure out the best/efficient way to tell who is logged into a site..

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

Re: [PHP] trying to figure out the best/efficient way to tell who is logged into a site..

- Original Message - From: Jason Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 11:25 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] trying to figure out the best/efficient way to tell who is logged into a site.. Close: You mix both of these ideas. Create a custom

RE: [PHP] trying to figure out the best/efficient way to tell who is logged into a site..

any code/pointers to this... i've been doing the google/search thing and haven't come across anything which relates to what i'm searching for... so.. any help in this area would be greatly appreciated!! i would have thought there would be articles/open course code/apps on this!! -thanks bruce

RE: [PHP] trying to figure out the best/efficient way to tell who is logged into a site..

any code/pointers to this... i've been doing the google/search thing and haven't come across anything which relates to what i'm searching for... so.. any help in this area would be greatly appreciated!! i would have thought there would be articles/open course code/apps on this!! -thanks

RE: [PHP] trying to figure out the best/efficient way to tell who is logged into a site..

ok still have questions regarding how to handle a user/session of a user who kills their browser. in this case, the user's session information would still be in the db for the session handler... am i correct in understanding/assuming that i could iterate through the list of sessions in the

Re: [PHP] trying to figure out the best/efficient way to tell who is logged into a site..

bruce wrote: as an exercise, i took a look at mambo (the cms) and realized that it doesn't handle users who simply shut down their browser while on the system... thoughts/comments... The only way to deal with such situations is through a garbage collection routine that periodically deletes