User Interface: Logout

There are a number of tutorials on creating "who online" lists (just do a
Google search). The tricky bit is detecing activity to determine whether
someone has left the site or is simply reading pages.

To follow a database approach you could have a script that updated the users
table with a timestamp each time a page was called, and then used a time
difference to remove anyone with a time greater than 30 minutes.



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Paul Whitham
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Adobe Community Expert - Dreamweaver

Valleybiz Internet Design
www.valleybiz.net

"bondeblade" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>I want to be able to tell which users on my site are online and which are
> offline, i thought the best way of doing this would be to add another area
> to
> my database which would be a booean tick box (ticked if online and
> unticked if
> offline).
> I would code it by saying when the user logs in, tick the box and when the
> user loggs out untick the box however if the user were to close the window
> the
> box would remain ticked, how can i get round this problem (can i make it
> timeout somehow).
>