Check what users are online

[BIOSTALL]

Hey, i've made a forum and now i'm just looking to add the finishing touches. What i want is a list to be created of all the users currently viewing the forums. Now, i presume i would need another column in my 'users' table say, for example, called 'online'. When they're online set it to 1, if they're not, set it to 0. Now, the trouble comes when the user quits the forum. I cant figure out a way to set the 'online' value back to 0.

Would somebody be able to help me?? Cheers, BIOSTALL

[Drakla]

This has been done dozens of times on the forum. Basically you reset a time fiend in a database every time the access a page. There are no easy ways of finding they've logged out, so that's the solution used on most sites.

[Kudose]

Call the online script on every page. Update the time in the DB with that call. In the same call, have it delete everything, say, 15 minutes old.

Fin.

[planetsim]

Also a quick search on the forums will show many solutions most which may need a little modification.