> I'm trying to make a page to help in detecting people using automatic > refresher programs. In the table that stores user info, there is a > column called "lastseen" which says when the user was last seen. I'm > trying to: > 1. Select all lastseen colmns that are less than 5 minutes old > 2. Wait 2 seconds > 3. Select lastseen columns that have changed since step 1, and display > that info > Any ideas on how to do this? Is it even possible? Thanks...
Temp tables would probably work great here... I'm assuming mysql, but the logic should work with any db. <? //untested code: $result = mysql_query("CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE temp (PRIMARY KEY (id)) SELECT id, lastseen FROM table WHERE lastseen > NOW() - INTERVAL 5 MINUTE"); sleep(2); $result = mysql_query("SELECT table.* FROM table, temp WHERE table.id = temp.id AND table.lastseen != temp.lastseen"); Then parse the results of the second query and it should give you those rows that have changed in 2 seconds. ---John Holmes... -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php