Re: online/offline...but on a list of users

<clip> > I want to add this same functionality to a forum on the same site (the forum > was custom programmed > from scratch and not any of the popular ones), but since in a single thread > there can be a lot of different > people/usernames that answer I would prefer _not_ to do a select lookup for > each username... > any ideas on how else it can be done? </clip> I'd say start with a query that pulls the online users into an array, then do an array_key_exists() or in_array() against that. -------------------------------------------- Thanks! Thats a really good idea and one that i didnt think of. For now it should be okay as there are just a few hundred users, but if it gets really big then it might be a bit of a problem... if you any other ideas please feel free to reply till then I'll try your idea out. Thanks, Ryan