Online Script.

Teach

[FONT=courier new]Hello,

I hope you can help please.
I've seen a few sites, such as mirc.net ( www.mirc.net/online.php ) and a few other sites that have these pages which say who's online, and whereabouts on a website they are.

Are these easily done, or can you recommend one? I don't particulary want to use MySQL for it if possible.

Thanks for any guidance.

Regards,[/FONT]

planetsim

May want to check the IRC Functions on PHP as I am not familiar with them.

rachel2004

Dan, I haven't played around with these functions either, so I was curious to look into it just now...

looks like the function you want is:

www.php.net/ircg_list

Anyone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

Teach

[FONT=courier new]Hello there,

Thanks for your replies.

Sorry, I wasn't clear. What I'm asking has nothing to do with "IRC", it's simply just a PHP script that shows what users are online a website, and what page on a website they're on. If you take a look at the link I gave in my first post, it's just an example, it's not anything to do with IRC as far as I know.

I've seen other websites use it too, it displays things such as how long their session has been going, when they last moved around the site, and what page on a website they're currently on, even as far as flags for which country they're visiting from.

Thanks.[/FONT]

TheDefender

Dan, it's all done through the magic of IP Address caching and sessions...

When a user logs in, the IP address is bounced against a DB to identify the location, and the appropriate flag is shown... (This can sometimes be inaccurate due to ynamically assigned IP address, proxies and firewalls, but works well enough)

A session is usually created (or a cookie is set) and the user is identified as being online. When the session expires, via a timeout, or by logging out, the user is no longer online (to that site).

It can all be done with PHP (and some sort of D😎. It can be done with flat files, but that can be bulky , cumbersome and inefficient.