Counting Sessions
How does a web site know that there are 26 users on our site right now... oh, wait, now 27?? Steve ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
RE: Counting Sessions
the specifics depend on the OS, but generally speaking, the web server's open threads/processes are counted. -Original Message- From: Steve Reich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 11:41 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Counting Sessions How does a web site know that there are 26 users on our site right now... oh, wait, now 27?? Steve ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
RE: Counting Sessions
Well it's actually an approximation. What you can do is once a user hits the site, record the CFID and CFTOKEN or whatever other persistent var you want to use to a database along with the current date and time. And upon each subsequent page views, update the database. At the same time you would poll the DB to see how many users have hit the site within a time frame like oh say, one minute. Simple. ---mark Mark Warrick - Fusioneers.com Personal Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Business Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 714-547-5386 Efax: 801-730-7289 Personal URL: http://www.warrick.net Business URL: http://www.fusioneers.com ICQ: 125160 / AIM: markwarric -Original Message- From: Steve Reich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 11:41 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Counting Sessions How does a web site know that there are 26 users on our site right now... oh, wait, now 27?? Steve ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
RE: Counting Sessions
Dylan, I learn something everyday. Thanks. Is there a specific function in CF which will display those counts on the WinNT platform? ---mark Mark Warrick - Fusioneers.com Personal Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Business Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 714-547-5386 Efax: 801-730-7289 Personal URL: http://www.warrick.net Business URL: http://www.fusioneers.com ICQ: 125160 / AIM: markwarric -Original Message- From: Dylan Bromby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 11:54 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Counting Sessions the specifics depend on the OS, but generally speaking, the web server's open threads/processes are counted. -Original Message- From: Steve Reich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 11:41 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Counting Sessions How does a web site know that there are 26 users on our site right now... oh, wait, now 27?? Steve ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
Re: Counting Sessions
Thanks Dylan. That's kinda what I figured it had to be. I could think of no way to do it accurately with some sort of database logging. Does anyone know of how this information could be accessed with CF? Sounds like a good project for all you CFXers! I'll BETA test when it's ready! ;-) Steve Dylan Bromby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message 000c01c0ff3a$9808bf30$6401a8c0@bromby">news:000c01c0ff3a$9808bf30$6401a8c0@bromby... the specifics depend on the OS, but generally speaking, the web server's open threads/processes are counted. -Original Message- From: Steve Reich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 11:41 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Counting Sessions How does a web site know that there are 26 users on our site right now... oh, wait, now 27?? Steve ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
