user login / logout tracking

**aigb_mcd** · 10-12-2009, 03:31 PM

I want to track a user's login length and send that number to a database. Can anyone help?

**chrishirst** · 10-12-2009, 03:46 PM

Unless the user actually logs out specifically there is no way to determine how long they were actually logged in.

You could track the session ID and timestamp that, but that will end 20 minutes after the last client/server communication.

**aigb_mcd** · 10-12-2009, 03:48 PM

hmm,, well yes i would have the user log out. i just need a way to see the time from login to log out.

**chrishirst** · 10-12-2009, 03:51 PM

yep

store the time they login then deduct that from the time they logout

Use the DateDiff function.

**infotech rules** · 10-13-2009, 02:35 AM

Yeah you can do that. The session can be stored for each users or if you add additional features it could provide you detail about login time of each user. In other cases you can just subtract the time they logged in and logged out and get the required result.

**aigb_mcd** · 10-20-2009, 05:59 PM

what would that code look like?