time sensitive....

[planetphp]

Hi,

I'm building part of a chat room script that shows who is online.

What I want to do is delete users from the online table when they havent submitted a post for more than ten minutes.

I have a timestamp column in the online table which stamps their last post time.

what i need is an if statement that calculates the last post time and whether it is more than ten minutes old.

the timestamp variable is

$lastpost

if($lastpost ???????? $curtime ?????)
{
delete from database
}

Please help

[Andy_B2]

Look up the Date function in the PHP manual. Use it and MkTime() to find the time in the future.

<Snippit>
It is possible to use date() and mktime() together to find dates in the future or the past. Example 3. date() and mktime() example

$tomorrow = mktime (0,0,0,date("m") ,date("d")+1,date("Y"));
$lastmonth = mktime (0,0,0,date("m")-1,date("d"), date("Y"));
$nextyear = mktime (0,0,0,date("m"), date("d"), date("Y")+1);
</snippit>