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I asked this question in the development forum, but received no responses - hope it’s OK to repost here - could really do with some help on this

I am developing a module for EE and need some advice re the best practice method for getting the member ids for all logged in members.

I am asking because I am unsure whether I can always rely on the sessions table, or do I need to check cookies as well.

Whatever the case, I need to reliably and accurately generate a list of all currently logged in users.

A related question - when do the entries in the sessions table get removed. I am seeing duplication of members in the sessions table on my development system. This is probably due my still debugging the module, but I am not doing anything to place entries in the sessions table, so they must be left over from sessions that were abandoned. I assume that EE has some kind of garbage collection for this - or not?

Hi JohnD,

You can use the below code to find out the online members :

$time_limit = 15; // Number of minutes to track users

$cutoff = $this->EE->localize->now - ($time_limit * 60);

$this->EE->db->select('member_id, name');
$this->EE->db->where('site_id', $this->EE->config->item('site_id'));
$this->EE->db->where('date >', $cutoff);
$this->EE->db->order_by('name');
$query = $this->EE->db->get('online_users');

I copied this code Stats library and did a little change for you. So please look into Stats library.

I hope, it would help you.

Best Regards,
Bhashkar yadav

Hi Bhashkar, thank you for your suggestion.

I am not convinced that this method is reliable. It relies entirely on the contents of the online users table.

This table’s content is subject to the “‘enable_online_user_tracking”  and the “disable_all_tracking” settings, which means that some online members may not be recorded there.

The purposes of my module require me to reliably have a list of ALL logged in members at any given moment, because my module is affected by the privileges that different logged in users have.

Any other suggestions?