I've built a little ajax online user module that hits the db every 60 seconds and updates the online users.
As it is right now I've got it based on the regular Joomla session, however that is set higher than I want for this module. We have online video conference meetings in adobe connect as well as a streaming live broadcast section coming soon similar to what twit.tv does where a user could be sitting idle using these things so we don't want them to log out too fast.
What I need to do here is base what's considered as "online" in this module on the user's last activity and not based on if the Joomla session sees them as logged in or not so if a member is sitting idle for 15 minutes or longer they no longer show.
Is there an existing function in cb or Joomla to do this. If not is there a way to calculate when the user last did something or are the sessions simply going off of the login time?
I can build a timer I guess that will reset on page load and base it off of that if I need to but if there's already a way to do this without adding something extra I just as well do that.
Just increase the session lifetime from 15 minutes to say 999. Then they'll stay shown as online until the logout or 999 minutes is reached.
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The problem is we need it to be shorter for the online user list otherwise you'll end up with a huge long list of online users where the majority are inactive, but we need the session time to be long like you suggested.
What I ended up doing was just adding a column to the users table and updating that value with the current datetime whenever a page is loaded and checking against that time to see if they've just been sitting for 15 minutes or more.
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