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Originally Posted by zerovic
You can use ajax for that... simply fire it every, let's say 5 seconds and call a PHP script with it that will update the users last online time / date... with this, you'll see who's "last_online" time/date was updated recently, which means they were online in the last 5 seconds...
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Can you tell me more about this? Do you mean having a script in Ajax that pings the server to tell it its connected, then write it to a DB?
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Originally Posted by CurrentlySober
Years ago, in about 02/03 I was shown a website stats thing that showed all the users on your site, in real time, and what they were doing etc... But it wasn't just 'dry' text. It was actual animated little people, and the pages of the site were represented as rooms in the building and as someone moved from page to page / room to room, so did the little animated figure on screen.
A bit like very early sims but for website. Dunno what it was called, but it was pretty expensive apparently  |
I seem to remember that too.. it was some kind of stats program but not quite what I was looking for.