how to know how many people are online?

 
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 3:46 pm    Post subject: how to know how many people are online? Reply with quote

i know i need to use Global.asa but it's not fully supported by Activehtml.

anyone have an idea on how to do that?


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PostPosted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 7:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There's a simple solution for you if you host only one domain.

Automatically assign a persistent session that lasts for, say, 15 minutes. That assumes you consider a person's online presence for 15 minutes after their last request.
Then just count the sessions in the server directory that holds session information.

Otherwise, here's the concept:
Make a table, whether it exists in a file or in a database.
This table stores records like: IP.address|timestamp.
For every web request (good to put this code in your global file), compare the IP address with the list in the table. Then see if it has been in the past 15 minutes. If not, record them at the top of the table.
Also, for every request, count the number of IP addresses that have accessed your in the past 15 minutes.

I don't know anything about ASP, but I imagine you could find such script already made: http://stephen.calvarybucyrus.org/search/asp+online+user+counter
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 10:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You could create a session handler that uses a database, that's probably the best way.

Edit: I was talking about PHP, sorry. Not sure if you can do it in ASP too.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

how do i count the sessions in the server directory that holds session information?
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Get a directory listing. It should give you a count. On the specifics, it depends on your operating system.
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