By 'online user' i mean clients that have a websocket connection.

On Friday, July 10, 2015 at 7:12:50 PM UTC, JorgeH wrote:
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> Hah
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> Be patient.. Don't expect other people to answer right away. Rest assured 
> your question is being read. That doesn't mean that everyone have the 
> answer at hand.
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> I have never done what you need but I am guessing you have to define  what 
> an 'online user is'
> Does it mean users logged in? In that case  
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> I suppose you create a controller to query the user_cas table to see how 
> many are online, and via ajax, create a view that shows the number of users 
> online.
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> On Friday, July 10, 2015 at 1:32:06 PM UTC-5, Samuel Sowah wrote:
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>> I need help please... anyone?
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>> This thread keeps going down the list and I'm afraid it might get missing 
>> and go unanswered :/
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>> On Friday, July 10, 2015 at 12:20:39 PM UTC, Samuel Sowah wrote:
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>>> I checked out the web2py.js file and it looks like what i'm looking for 
>>> is right in there but i really do not know how to implement this. I 
>>> realized I can take advantage of the web2py_websocket function's onopen 
>>> argument and write a function to tell that that user is online, and when 
>>> the browser tab or window is closed, I'd write a function to execute for 
>>> onclose.
>>>
>>> The problem I have now is what function to write. I want to store the 
>>> ids of all the connected users somewhere so i can refer to it and use it to 
>>> get whatever information i want (i.e. a count of all users online, urls to 
>>> their profile pages, etc), and then when they close the page, their ids are 
>>> removed from wherever i'm storing it.
>>>
>>> Is it possible to keep that list of ids in a database, or a list, and 
>>> still update the page in real time when more users connect and disconnect?
>>>
>>> Scenario.
>>> There are 0 users online right now. When I visit the website, I want to 
>>> see the number automatically say 1 users online. and when my friend also 
>>> goes to the page on his computer, I want to see in my browser 2 users 
>>> online. When he leaves the page/closes the page, I want to see in my 
>>> browser 1 users online without having to refresh the page.
>>>
>>> I don't know if I'm thinking about this correctly so I need some help 
>>> and guidance here, thanks.
>>>
>>

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