NYCPHP Meetup

[D C Krook]

Phil,

I don't have the answer to your question, but I am impressed with the clear 
description of your desired outcome, the outline of your current 
platform(s), and evidence that you've done research and explored several 
approaches.

-Dan



>http://codewalkers.com/seecode/75.html
>http://www.webkreator.com/php/concepts/counting-users-online-with-php.html
>
>The following two URLs illustrate different approaches to the idea of 
>showing "how many
>users online" issue.  I am looking at two different sites where I am 
>looking into implementing
>this type of script; one that has mySQL and one that has no db access of 
>any kind; both use
>PHP 4.1.
>
>I (for once) understand what I would need to do to implement it; problem 
>comes in as to which
>solution would be the fastest, most efficient and most secure considering 
>that one of them
>deals with sessions (then there is the cookie issue, but that's another 
>issue altogether,
>see http://www.webkreator.com/php/configuration/php-session-security.html 
>on security issues
>and cookies/sessions).
>
>What would one best recommend I use: the PHP/mySQL solution (for the non-db 
>issue I would have
>to write complicated XML procedures instead), or sessions?
>
>Oh, more info:
>
>Site #1 (has mySQL) is Linux/Apache ??/mySQL 3.23.41 and PHP 4.1
>Site #2 (has no DB) is generic UNIX/Apache ?? and PHP 4.1
>
>Thanx
>Phil

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