Display if a user is offline or online

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I want to display 'Online' or 'Offline' on a users profile page depending if they logged in or not. How would i do that?

Posted 7-Dec-13 11:49am

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enhzflep 7-Dec-13 17:55pm

When the user-profile page is requested, you check your 'logged-in users' table to see if the user is flagged as being logged in. If so, print Online - if not, print Offline.

Naturally, you need to write some data to a database table when the user logs in/out, which you then use for the above paragraph.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 7-Dec-13 18:34pm

Also note that it has nothing to do with "off-line" or "on-line".
—SA

enhzflep 7-Dec-13 19:01pm

Fair point. Thank-you. :)

I often find it hard to tell if the poster has the terminology wrong or the idea wrong. Thorough as always, cheers Sergey!

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 7-Dec-13 19:53pm

Thank you very much.
It's not just you. In general case, the cases you mentioned could be theoretically indistinguishable... :-)
—SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 7-Dec-13 18:34pm

The idea makes no sense, because "on-line/off-line" and "authenticated or not" are totally unrelated.
—SA

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