[fox1999]

Hi to everybody,

i have an internet site (www.click4soccer.com) from some years and until now i have counted online users throught the use of database. But now i have the problem to relieve DB work because visitors is very high (we go up to 120 users online at the same time).

I'm looking to method to count visitors throught sessions as can i did with ASP (sesssion_start and session_end) but i don't know if with PHP is possible.

Somebody can help me to understand if and how i can monitor online users without use db?

Thanks

[Masterhard]

IMHO database is the fastest way to work with large amounts of visitors. I think you should check if all needed table indexes are exist. Try to optimise your database.

[Bantam]

Try this: http://www.phpbuilder.com/snippet/do...snippet&id=180

[Eclipse]

I'm using a great one a wrote that simply sets a sessions then counts sessions here it is: {but keep in mind you must have already started the session}

PHP Code:

$count = 0;

 

        $handle4 = opendir(session_save_path());

        if ($handle4 == false) return -1;

 

        while (($file = readdir($handle4)) != false) {

        if (ereg("^sess", $file)) $count++;

        }

        closedir($handle4); 

And the number of users online is set to $count. Hope that works for you.

[<?Wille?>]

Originally Posted by Eclipse

I'm using a great one a wrote that simply sets a sessions then counts sessions here it is: {but keep in mind you must have already started the session}

PHP Code:

$count = 0;

 

        $handle4 = opendir(session_save_path());

        if ($handle4 == false) return -1;

 

        while (($file = readdir($handle4)) != false) {

        if (ereg("^sess", $file)) $count++;

        }

        closedir($handle4); 

And the number of users online is set to $count. Hope that works for you.

just makes me wonder.. this counts all the session files in phps session dir right? but the session file is not deleted after sessions destroyd.. right now i have 5 session files on my local computer but i dont have any session running.. so makeing that work would require something to delete the session file when logout.. just a thought

[Eclipse]

Are you running on a windows platform because on windows {in apache} you need to manuelally dealte sessions

[<?Wille?>]

Originally Posted by Eclipse

Are you running on a windows platform because on windows {in apache} you need to manuelally dealte sessions

windows xp / apace 2
but i havent deleted any session files and opened probably 350 sessions..
this php.ini setting might have something to do with it:

Code:

; Define the probability that the 'garbage collection' process is started
; on every session initialization.
; The probability is calculated by using gc_probability/gc_divisor,
; e.g. 1/100 means there is a 1% chance that the GC process starts
; on each request.

session.gc_probability = 1
session.gc_divisor     = 100

[Eclipse]

I know maybe it just doesn't work on the version that i have 4.3.1 also i set that to 1/1 so that could cause a silent error maybe...

[---MTW---]

Hello,

What about to use an external provider for it? it seems to be better to use such a service if you have a high traffic web site.
Please check http://www.myonlineusers.com

Regards..

Originally Posted by fox1999

Hi to everybody,

i have an internet site (www.click4soccer.com) from some years and until now i have counted online users throught the use of database. But now i have the problem to relieve DB work because visitors is very high (we go up to 120 users online at the same time).

I'm looking to method to count visitors throught sessions as can i did with ASP (sesssion_start and session_end) but i don't know if with PHP is possible.

Somebody can help me to understand if and how i can monitor online users without use db?

Thanks

[nova912]

I belive it's your garbage collection... tha causing session to stick around. GC seems to be really flakey. You can, "i think", set session.gc.maxlifetime past 1440 (24 mins) to exstend the life that the session file has but be aware that the max life setting that is the lowest of any file in the session folder will be used and not the highest, and that is applied to all files in the session dir.

Hope that helps.