How to make online counter to count when people logged in?

[Carlmagigka]

Hi DevBest,

If i got a CMS and i liked to change the online counter so it counts one more online when the person log in?
Not on the client but just log in from the index to the me page?

 

[Brad]

Moved to the correct place, please try to post in the correct section in future.

 

[JayC]

Well this would be kinda hard because you could have a variable like "logged_in" and count how many are logged_in every x amount of seconds and refresh it, but the problem comes when people like me just close your browser it doesn't always log you in so you could have like 400 users logged in because no one logs out, but really only 3 people on client.

 

[mastermind]

Wouldn't you just log how many are connected to the emulator? In which case you use PHP to pull data from your DB as there should be a field listed for ONLINE status'