Counter Refresh??

[discussion14php]

Dear All,

I have a file counter script and everything. It shows to the count each who is visitor in my intranet address. I want a counter that shows the number of visitors currently on my site. I have to make a conter script but I don't know why it is count the same visitor?. Could anyone help me.

Thanks in advance,
discussion14php

[TenFold]

well you could have it set up like a site page hit counter. When a user logs in, the count which is stored in another file is upped one, and when a user clicks the logout link, that count in another file has one subtracted from its count. maybe? 🙂

[Jack_McSlay]

i'd say the best way to do this is to start a session, store something in it to say the user has just entered your site. like:

session_start();
$time = time();

if (!isset ($_SESSION['lastvisit']) or $_SESSION['lastvisit'] < ($time - 1200) ){
    add_visitorcounter();
}

$_SESSION['lastvisit'] = $time;

what this thing does is to check the session, if there is stored a timestamp that points out the user has last visited less than 20 minutes ago, it doesn't add anything.