Can this be done in php?

[Darren884]

Is it possible to count the number and display the number of people who have a session on your site?

[webnoob]

are they loggin on through a logon script, if so when they log in you could add 1 to a variable that holds the data for the ammount of ppl on the site or add one to a session value would prob be better

[Darren884]

I want to count the number of a specific session that are occuring on the server...

[webnoob]

how does the session get started??

[Darren884]

well geez by setting it..?

[spikeZ]

What he means is, are the sessions being started by a user logging on or are they set some other way like bing set when the page loads?

If they are logging on use webnoobs idea, if they are not logging on then it is much more difficult to count as sessions can occasionaly be transfered from site to site if the user has not looged out.
By which I mean if a user has logged into hotmail to read their emails, that session can still be active when the user comes to your site.

Spike

[jaswinder_rana]

if you are using database then you can put a datetime field. and whenever user goes to a page update it. now, count all the users that have surfed a page within last 30 minutes or somehting like. i hope i am being realistic. never done this though.

[Darren884]

jaswinder thats exactly what I want to do, I want to count the active users that are not logged into my site who have been active in the last 15 minutes.

[medicjoe95]

My friend did something like this, I think i can find his script - It would be old school, but I will see if I can find it. Somebody will obviously correct me when i find it though lmao

[medicjoe95]

Ok nevermind, I just had a bad memory, it just pulled the amount of rows in users =P