Making a "count users online" script.

I don't know where to start..

[I Will Make It]

Should this be done by getting values from a session, or is fine to use mysql db's to do this?

I'm a newbie to php, so if anyone has some good articles or whatever, feel free to post the url's for those here ;)

Even better: Post the entire code :D

best regards

[hakre]

or even better: search the web for a "who is online" service .

[barns101]

phpBB [phpbb.com] has a who's online feature so you could take a look at the source.

[Matt Probert]

On a Linux web server you can issue the following command to the shell:

netstat -na ¦ grep ^tcp ¦ wc -l

If you echo the ouput to a file you can then read it in, and display it within a formatted HTML page.

Matt

[I Will Make It]

thank you!

I think I'll check the phpBB forum :)
That's exactly what I was looking for.

I have googled on "users online script php" but all of them are from sites like hotscript and so, and those scripts are always like 5-10 files long, and contains all this extra functions that nobody really needs.