displaying number of members and visitors online

[itzsug]

Hi,

I want to display the number of members and visitors currently online in ASP. I tried doing this using application and session variables. But the problem i faced was when a user closes the window without logout/signout, the session variables still exist until the specified timeout, as a result the number of members doesnot change.

How can achieve this?

Thanks.

from
Jagadish

[Vasu]

Hi,

When you close the browser window, call the method in which it clears the user from the session.

When you logout, i guess u r calling one method, for eg logout() where u r removing user from session.

So when you close the window, call logout() method.

sample code:

in ur page, javascript code looks like this:
window.onunload=onClose
function onClose(){
//when u click x on the topcorner, it will go inside the foll. if loop.
if(window.screenTop>10000)
{
//call logout() method
}
}

I dont know ASP, i told in general...

[itzsug]

Hi Vasu,

Thanks a lot for the information. Do I have to write a javascript function and call that on every page on window close event.

Thanks.

from
Jagadish

[Vasu]

Yah,
we need to write javascript function on each page.
As we need to handle the event on closing the browser without logging out from application, i guess we need to go for java script.

There may be some other good solutions.

The one that i told is easy to implement.