tracking who has logged in to the site

[remdog]

We have a secure area on our site accessible by logging in with a username/PW. We'd like to be able to track who has logged into the secure area--don't need to know when or how often, just who (ie, which customer). Is there off the shelf software that can do this? Is this something easy for our developer to do?
Our site is done up with PHP/mysql.

Thanks.

[Netizen]

Is the authentication done via HTTP authentication or in a script? If you are using HTTP authentication then the username used normally appears in the server log files. If the authentication is done via a script then your developer should be able to log who accesses (and when, how often, etc, if you want).

[remdog]

via a script. How long would you estimate this would take our developer to do?

[nipear]

I have something similiar with asp and ms access. It took me about 45 minutes to do. All they will need to do is when someone logs on, is to write their username to a table, then display that table to you some where on the site. It should be an easy addition to your code.

[Netizen]

Indeed, that shouldn't take long at all. An hour or less to implement the logging and a page to let you see the results.