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bizshop · 12-28-2005, 04:19 PM

I want to be able to determine the number of visitors to the entire server at a given moment. Not the users set up in the system, but people browsing, putting things in shopping carts, etc.

Is there a command or PHP script that might do this? I want to be able to determine what is going on traffic-wise before I trip the server off for maintenance, Apache restart, etc.

mjmwired · 12-29-2005, 11:48 AM

Just my thoughts:
You need some sort of server side session manager/handler. PHP does have this with PHP SESSIONS (look in PHP documentation). Perhaps you can count how many active sessions you have open at any given time and that could tell you how many active users you have.