[Stealth]

i know how to use global sessions to see how many users are online but how can i see who EXACTLY is online?


cant get my head round it?

i presume i will have to use arrays in the global.asa file? or am i just talking sh!t as usual?

[Mister B.]

well, couldn't you just make a string in the DB, called logged or whatever, and when they log in, make that true, and when they loggout false?

[Shane]

There are a few ways you can do this.

- Use Global.asa file
Inside the Session_Start event, store the session id, username (if there is one), date/time in a table. And then, on the session_end event, delete the row by session_id. I've heard this method is highly unreliable.


- Multiple updates
When the person logs in, or comes to your site, store the session id, username, current date and time in the table. Now, on every page, update that record with the current time and delete all records where the time hasn't been updated in X minutes (i.e 20 minutes) This will get you your listing.


Hope that helps.

[Stealth]

i can do it through database but i dont want to push it too far. its used a lot.
To be honest i dont use global.asa a lot but i will try this out m8 thnx

[Shane]

It won't push it that far. Most sites use the second method. If you are using ASP.NET, you can use ASP.NET's great caching abilities to do some really cool stuff.

[Stealth]

never used asp.net but ive been meaning to learn.

Is it poss to integrate it with ASP?


in fact hell with it. Site will just have to handle it lol