Re: seeing who is using the site..

Erwin Moller schreef:
The Natural Philosopher schreef:
Interesting problem. Who is 'online' to the site? and what pages are they accessing..

Ok, could just do a nasty bit of regexp on the logs..but what about every page extracting callers IP address, its own identity,(all my pages are php) and possibly what bits of the database are being accessed....

any ideas on a nice way to present this in a 'sysadmin' page?



Hi Philosopher,

The 'who-is-online' is a little hard on normal setups.
I approached it in the past like this, but that was on a site that demanded people to log on first:

That was poorly and confusing formulated.
What I wanted to say: If you demand them to log in, you know WHO they are, as opposed to unknown visitors that happen to start a session with your site.
If they do not authenticate themself with username/password, you can of course happily start a session anyway.

Regards,
Erwin Moller

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