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[Eddie Haber]

There are JavaScript and flash solutions that calculate exact seconds of
every page-view. Check into those technologies.

If you really wanna know as much as you can about page-view duration and
user stickiness set up a socket connection between an invisible flash movie
on the user's page and a simple PHP socket "page-views" server. And the
funny thing is I'm not even joking.

E

> Hey gang,
> 
> I am building a site where you can see how many members are logged in
> for each group.  After looking around, I see that this is being done by
> forums, some CMS, and may even be integrated with PEAR's AUTH.  The site
> uses ADOdb, and I am considering using ADOdb's session storage as it
> also can run user defined functions when sessions expire.
> 
> So I am also certain that there are several ways to tackle this
> problem.  Knowing that performance and scalability is an absolute must,
> what is the best approach?
> 
> #1) In the accounts table, also have a column of 'logged_in', as a
> boolean; and then count the 'true's for each group.
> #2) Create a linked table, 'group_counts'; and store each account_id in
> there while the session is still active
> #3) ???
> 
> This group is hot enough that I am certain some of you have come up with
> very solid approaches to this problem - and I wanna hear them!
> 
> -- Mitch
> 
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