Re: users online

Ryan A schreef: > Hi, > I have been searching the archives with little luck so I need a reminder > here, > I remember a little while ago someone asked how to implement the "users > online" functionality > that some sites have...now i have been asked to do exactly that but with a > small twist: > instead of displaying "xx number of users online" they want me to display > all the usernames who are online > with a link to their profile. > > I have a few ideas on how this can be done, but I would like advise from > people who have already done this > or thought of doing it (i think there was also a class that does something > like this i'll check while waiting for a reply from you guys) so i can > compare it with my ideas (which are in the infancy stage ;-) ) Easiest way of doing this is adding a 'last seen' field to your user profiles and updating that record with the current timestamp every time the user requests a page. Al you need to do when displaying the 'users online' info is getting al profiles with the 'last seen' record on a time between now and x minutes ago (depending on what you consider to be an 'online' user). If you're using a database like mysql or postgresql for profile storage, use a field type that the database software can handle internaly, this can speed up the query. regards, Ewout