Re: php and flash chat program

Well there really is no way of knowing if they left their computer or not, or just shutdown their computer. The only way that I know of would be to use java, but that's not what you are using. Good luck! Rick A wise women once said: " No one can help everybody, but everybody can help somebody." - Unknown > From: "Matt Palermo" <mpalermo@vt.edu> > Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 21:37:20 -0400 > To: "'Richard Baskett'" <php@baskettcase.com>, "'PHP > General'" > <php-general@lists.php.net> > Subject: RE: [PHP] php and flash chat program > > I realize that this can be done, but I would like to make it as instant > as possible. I don't want to wait very long for the user to be removed > from the online users list. Got any other ideas? Thanks. > > Matt > > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Baskett [mailto:php@baskettcase.com] > Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 6:15 PM > To: Matt Palermo; PHP General > Subject: Re: [PHP] php and flash chat program > > What I normally do in these situations is have two fields separated by > tabs > or commas or whatever you want. The first field is the username and the > second field is a timestamp. > > The timestamp can be updated every time the user writes a message, since > Im > sure you are logging also.. or after, say an hour, have their name > removed > from the list, although this might make them have to log back in :) > > Every time someone logs into the chat go through the list getting rid of > any > usernames older than an hour or any other time. And everytime someone > logs > off do the same thing.. or if you get a lot of activity, just go through > the > list when people logoff. > > Cheers! > > Rick > > "If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about > it, > you might as well laugh about it now." - Marie Osmond > >> From: "Matt Palermo" <mpalermo@vt.edu> >> Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 17:19:31 -0400 >> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> >> Subject: [PHP] php and flash chat program >> >> Hey, I need some advice if anyone is willing to offer it. I have a > chat >> program I am working on. The interface is built in flash, and it uses >> PHP also. There is a main chat area where the users type their > messages >> back and forth, and there is also a smaller area which displays all of >> the currently logged-in users. When a user logs into the chat room, > it >> adds their nickname to a users.txt file, which creates a list of all > the >> online users and is then displayed in the chat page. I also have a >> logoff button that will search for the users nickname in the users.txt >> file and remove it, so that it won't be displayed in the chat window >> anymore. The only problem I am having is that if a user doesn't click >> on the logoff button and instead just closes the internet window or >> shuts off their computer, then their nickname will still appear in the >> list of users, since it wouldn't get a chance to be removed by the >> logoff button. I'm not sure how to accomplish this, I would > appreciate >> any help you can offer me. Thanks a lot. >> >> Matt >> > > >