Opened sessions

Hi

Is there any posibility to find out how many php sessions are currently open on my site? My users log in using session, and I want to know how many of them are online

 

Count the number of files present in sessions directory. It is normally /tmp. You can confirm the session path from php.ini.

 

Although, that's all opened sessions on a server, not a single site.

 

You are right. I assumed the site is running on a dedicated server. Then the only solution which I can think of is to use database driven sessions on your site.

 

Thanks The best way is to change the code to simple log this information (last page, time, etc.) then have another page parse this data for active users over the last x minutes.

 

thanks guys. I have decided to create a database based script to get the number of users online, I have already make some tests and it seems to do the job

 

Using database driven things increase database activity but extremely useful

 

you're right, but can have no results with no effort

 

Make sure to make it a memory based table as you it is not crucial data. Memory based will be faster, but any time mysql is restarted it will be cleared. You'll find most software use memory based for their sessions so you would not be alone in doing this.

 

thanks for the yip