true - but the requirement is for logged in users only, if you had a reason
for a user to stay on the same page for more than say, five minutes, then
you would need an ajax heartbeat to update the timestamp

we would have to understand the application a bit more rather than providing
technical solutions

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Gareth McCumskey <gmccums...@gmail.com>wrote:

> But you would need to update them not being logged in at some point. And
> what if they just closed their browser window without logging out? Or what
> if they log in and they have been surfing the site for the last two hours
> ... that logged in time would still stay the same....
>
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Justen Doherty <phpc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> i would have a 'last_logged_in' date against a user and every time a user
>> logs in, this timestamp is updated - once  you have this time in the
>> database, then define an offset (say 2 mins or 180 seconds) and query
>> against the database for a count/users that are logged in..
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Vikos <make.webp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Or if the Presence information doesn't matter...
>>>
>>> make a shoutbox...
>>>
>>> On Jan 18, 9:24 am, Gabriel Petchesi <pghora...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > You should look into server push technologies to get updated
>>> information
>>> > from the clients.
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_technologyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_technologyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_%28programming%29>
>>> >
>>> > As for storing user state use memcache with some locking mechanism to
>>> see
>>> > which users are active or not.
>>> >
>>> >     gabriel
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