How to determine the number of active connections on my site? When entering the site, give to the one who connected, some id and write to the database, and delete when you exit?

  • And how do you want to determine the fact of exit? - ilyaplot
  • For what purpose do you need it? - Bookin
  • Yes, and under active connections, what is meant is also not clear. - Evgenii Izhboldin
  • @Bookin to select two random users and allow them to send text messages to each other. Chat. - Sergey Alekseev
  • As I understand it on php, without special tricks, you can only determine the time of the last activity, the user - Evgenii Izhboldin

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  • Option 1. Track the latest activity.

    The answer was taken from the English version by @Sampson

    Whenever a user accesses a page, update the last action field in the Users table. Then make a request (or hang up the task in cron ) for all users who have been active for the last 5 minutes. The rest translate into offline status.

    If you need to know that they are active, although they do not go to other pages, then you can add something like a javascript ping

     setInterval(function () { $.get("stillAlive.php"); }, 60000); //60000 - 1 минута, можно свое время задать

  • Option 2. If you need to accurately track online users, use Websockets.

    For php there is for example an article . It has instructions and how to make your bike, and links to frameworks.