Users Logging in.

"Jay" <scatman.RemoveThis@jazzy.org> wrote in message
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 > I am developing a website for a club that has 40 members.
 > How can I set up the site so that users log in and are then shown as
 > being on-line ?
 >
 > Thanks


Id suggest using a free bullentin board/forum such as Invision Board
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.invisionboard.com/support.cgi" target="_blank">http://www.invisionboard.com/support.cgi</a> ... Or even a content management
system such as PHP-Nuke. They will both do what you want and more plus their
very easy to set up. Kids do it all the time.

Erik<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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In article <2e63ce8f.0307290753.40ff9935 DeleteThis @posting.google.com>,
scatman DeleteThis @jazzy.org (Jay) wrote:

 > I am developing a website for a club that has 40 members.
 > How can I set up the site so that users log in and are then shown as
 > being on-line ?
 >
 > Thanks
 >

Depends on your host and what you can support. If you are UNIX hosted,
then you could use .htaccess to password protect an area of the web site
and then setup a PHP or Perl script to record the user logging in and then
write your own Acess control settings and list.

If it's Windows, the cheapest option is to use an ASP cookie based system,
but the drawbacks there is that not all users have cookie support enabled
in their browser, but then it depends on the users you're targetting.

And if your host doesn't support this, then our hosting platform does

Leslie
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"William Tasso" <ngx.DeleteThis@tbdata.com> wrote in message
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 > Jay wrote:
  > > I am developing a website for a club that has 40 members.
  > > How can I set up the site so that users log in and are then shown as
  > > being on-line ?
 >
 > web is state-less. you can tell that a user did log in and even capture
the
 > timestamp, but you cannot tell if they are still reading your pages.

Not quite 100% true...

Applets / some other software could be used, including Flash...

but your essentially right

if you have access to ASP then you might want to take a glance at
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.WebWizGuide.co.uk" target="_blank">www.WebWizGuide.co.uk</a><!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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Gerry White - use my name at dergal dot come for email wrote:
 > ....
 > if you have access to ASP then you might want to take a glance at
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.WebWizGuide.co.uk</font" target="_blank">www.WebWizGuide.co.uk</font</a>>

redirects to <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.webwizguide.info/" target="_blank">http://www.webwizguide.info/</a> which appears to be a portal. did
you have anything in particular in mind?

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"Jay" <scatman DeleteThis @jazzy.org> wrote in message
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 > I am developing a website for a club that has 40 members.
 > How can I set up the site so that users log in and are then shown as
 > being on-line ?
 >
Need more information - is your host windows, *.nix?
Do you have db php etc?<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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