Listing of online users

[Guest]

Hi all,
I have been asked to produce a page (using asp - prefereably javascript, but VBScript will suffice) that shows details of all users currently logged into our website. These details should include, amongst other things, their login time and values stored in session variables, such as their full name and company name. Details on the page should be updated at intervals of 1 minute and/or each time the page is refreshed.

I'm not entirely sure how to go about retrieving the information from the server. I can retrieve the SessionID for the currently logged-in user, but how do I build a list of all logged-in users and associate other session variables with their SessionID? Is this the right approach or is there an easier way that doesn't involve re-inventing the wheel?

Any help appreciated.

Regards,

Ben.

[Newsgroup_User]

You could have an extra field in your Users table called LoggedIn. When a
user logs in, you could update this field to True. So, in your recordset,
you could show your logged in users:

select * from Users where Loggin=true

Also, I've a demo on an alternative method:

http://www.charon.co.uk/content.aspx?CategoryID=27&ArticleID=39

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[Newsgroup_User]

what happens if they don't log out? they often just close their browser
or go straight to another site without properly logging-out.

Julian Roberts wrote:
> You could have an extra field in your Users table called LoggedIn. When a
> user logs in, you could update this field to True. So, in your recordset,
> you could show your logged in users:
>
> select * from Users where Loggin=true
>
> Also, I've a demo on an alternative method:
>
> http://www.charon.co.uk/content.aspx?CategoryID=27&ArticleID=39
>

[Newsgroup_User]

nevermind. i found it in your linked article.

"2. Users are removed from the file that haven't visited a page in the
last 5 minutes"

[Newsgroup_User]

The Session_Onend event in global.asa can be used to update the database.

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