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> Timestamp and database., little help please.
imrie
post Jun 23 2007, 02:38 PM
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Ok, i have a database of registered members, i want it to say "X members online" when they are logged in. How could i do this. I think is what i need to do is to have a timestamp that logs when they are online every 5-10 mins and calls up the number from the database.

Only question is...........how?

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Brian Chandler
post Jun 23 2007, 02:57 PM
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There is actually no such thing as "online", since http is a sessionless protocol. So like everyone else, you fake up some nonsense, and pretend that a person is "online" for 5 minutes, or 10 minutes, or whatever the global standard nonsensical figure is. Then you keep a list of "online members" (database table: memberID, timeleft), and each time someone accesses a page, you set their timeleft value to 10 (or whatever), and every minute you run a function that decrements all the timeleft values.

Can I have a patent on that please, since I just invented it?


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post Jun 23 2007, 03:11 PM
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so when all the other sites say we have 22 members online how do they do it?
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post Jun 23 2007, 06:16 PM
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It means that "22 members" have requested a page from the server within the last n minutes, where n is defined by whoever implemented the "members online" feature.


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post Jun 24 2007, 06:22 AM
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how would i do that?
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