[Resolved] sessions

[markepic]

hi
I am creating a website where users login.
Now I want users to be able to see which other users are logged in (possibly with the word 'Online' next to users names when logged in).
I set this session variable as part of the login process:
$_SESSION['user_name'] = $member_id;
If that is anything to do with it!

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[thorpe]

search the board... been asked a million times.

[markepic]

Thanks...

I have searched the forums and have sort of found out how to do it. It seems that I should add a timestamp to the users db everytime they do something, and count any user that has done something in the last say 5 minutes as logged.

My new question is this:
How do I update the last time of action in the users database?

(and yes I've searched the forums...)

[Drakla]

For every page where they're logged in, have a logincheck include, and in that, iff they're logged in have a query something like

UPDATE loggedusers SET timestamp = NOW() where userid = $_SESSION[userid]

Or if you're using unix timestamps for your log times (I always use them as I hate sql's in built tripe)

UPDATE loggedusers SET timestamp = UNIX_TIMESTAMP() where userid = $_SESSION[userid]

[markepic]

Thanks, that makes sense!