forum time..

[I3R0K3N7FEET]

is it possible to add an app on people's profiles to display their total active time on the forum? just so we can see how much time we are wasting away on here :D lol

[Nox]

thats the most scary thing i've ever heard!

Nox

[guardy06]

Agree with you Nox, I'd have to keep that info hidden from the other half!!

"yes darling, i'm just doing some work on the computer!"

[jonbanjo]

I'm another "would rather not know". I'm curious as to how it might be done though. Nobody's truely logged in and things like showing who is online are a bit of a fiddle.

[Mr. Lime]

Lol id welcome it :D

[snakedoc]

Hmm, I seem to be finding myself spending less and less time here at the mo.

[promedia]

I'm another "would rather not know". I'm curious as to how it might be done though. Nobody's truely logged in and things like showing who is online are a bit of a fiddle.

It can be done two ways...

Page script that has a timer from page loading and runnning the script gets posted along with the next request which is updated on the Database.

The time period that the socket for the page is left at a state of WAIT which is pretty poor because the connection generally times out after a period unless the headers passed have been to not close the connection [IE: Connection: Keep-Alive].

I know some other bits of Forum software count the time you've been logged in etc... I think the last one I remember is SMF Forums or PHPBB.

As for showing when a user is online... what ususally happens is if the sessions are logged in the databases for access anyway, if they're time stamped and the user hasn't requested a page for over 20 mins it can be classed as "Offline"..

Hope that helps :)

Jim,

[I3R0K3N7FEET]

Hmm, I seem to be finding myself spending less and less time here at the mo.

thats because youre busy healing solid snake :thumbs:

lol i was just curious cos i spend a lot of time here and i need something else rack up more hours on.. my pokemon has hit 999.99 hours so no more counting

[jonbanjo]

Hope that helps

Interesting. thanks. I suppose they would be OK for a bit of fun.

[thehitmen]

+1

for OP original idea :)

[Helior]

impossible to do it accurately but should be fairly trivial to estimate, just need to define a timeout period.

[I3R0K3N7FEET]

haha thats true.. i spend a lot of time on the forum idling..

[jonbanjo]

Different forum time comment: I notice the time here is getting faster - about 5 minutes ahead of my (set via NTP) PC.