How do you have that "how many people" thing?

How do you get a thing for a site like you have in the bottom right of the home page that tells you how many people are surfing your site at a time? Thanks.

An application variable is incremented or decremented every time the session start or end event fires in the global.asa file.

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Well, Jeff, at least you are honest! :)

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Good idea, I don't know why I did not think of that...

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and all of that means.... lol.

You mean like a counter?

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There's lots of already made scripts out there, find em!

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Chris, there might be something like that on CGI Resources or PHP Resources but you need to be able to run cgi or php which you can't do on Geocities.

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I would bet that its ASP(like everything else on this site). A simply session counter would do the trick. Bascially it counts the number of "session" or people that are currently viewing the site.

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Isn't that what I said in the first place?

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BrandonR said:
"There's lots of already made scripts out there, find em!
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I know of one, however, it is not customizable in any way and is actually very ugly. I love how the one here looks just like plain text. Where can I get some other pre-made scripts?

Isn't that what I said in the first place?

You tell us!

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It is -- he even says "each time a session starts or stops"

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Why don't you and the fricken counter get a fricken room!? ;) hehe. I've found some source codes if you're interested. Email me and I'll send you the link to some.

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You don't need a script. All you need is one application level variable that is set to zero in the application start event, incremented in the session start event and decrememted in the session end event. Not to hard.

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Stick this in your global.asa file, then use Response.Write Application("ActiveUsers") where ever you want the number to appear.

Sub Application_OnStart
' Set our user count to 0 when we start the server
Application("ActiveUsers") = 0
End Sub

Sub Session_OnStart
' Change Session Timeout to 20 minutes (if you need to)
Session.Timeout = 20
' Set a Session Start Time
' This is only important to assure we start a session
Session("Start") = Now
' Increase the active visitors count when we start the session
Application.Lock
Application("ActiveUsers") = Application("ActiveUsers") + 1
Application.UnLock
End Sub

Sub Session_OnEnd
' Decrease the active visitors count when the session ends.
Application.Lock
Application("ActiveUsers") = Application("ActiveUsers") - 1
Application.UnLock
End Sub

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*** This post was edited by Jeff on 3/12/2002. ***

Jeff said:

pointless quotation removed

Thanks! Is taht alll I need? Anddo I have to save thepage I use thin as .asp?

*** This post was edited by titanfan on 3/13/2002. ***

*** This post was edited by Jeff on 3/13/2002. ***

Actually, it is cut-and-paste in this case. That's why I posted it.

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