Most questions like this depend more on your ability to think creatively than your experience with PHP, so don't let inexperience discourage you from exploring on your own.
First, decide what you consider to be "online" exactly. If I, for example, requested a page 30 seconds ago, you would probably consider me to be online, even though I could theoretically have closed my browser and gone to dinner since then. If you're familiar with using a database, consider using the PHPSESSID (look into PHP sessions for more information on this) as a primary key in a table where the timestamp is kept and updated on each page request. To determine who is online, you could simply run a query on this table using your threshhold of idle time that you've determined to count as online. There are plenty of different ways to approach this, and my early-morning example is probably not the best. Hopefully it gives you an idea though of what you need to accomplish. Chris Pag wrote: > Is it possible to code in PHP a small indicator on a site saying > how many people are viewing that page at the moment? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
