find the number of users viewing a website at any point of time

[rahullko05]

Hi,
I am writing a code to display the number of user currently viewing my website at any point of time.
for example: for bytes i can see
network: 216355 as number of users currently viewing this website currently.

Also i want to know how can i get the IP address of machine from where the site is viewed or atleast user has logged in to my website. i want to keep track of this information.

[Markus]

There is no perfect way to tell how many people are viewing your site at any given time. I'm sure people will disagree, but w/e.

The best way to do this, is to log into your database the time of visit and the ip (available from $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']). Then, when you want to display the current amount of visitors, query the database for the visits that are only a minute or 2 old. That way, it gives you a better answer.

[rahullko05]

thanks, this solves my problem

[Markus]

@rahullko05
Glad I could help,

Markus.

[abhighat4214]

Yeah I agree , may be you can log the log in and log out time in database , execute the SQL count (*) function to keep track of number of users , but Yeah , I agree with the previous post, there is no perfect way to know how many people are using your site at a givne time.
Regards,
Abhijit