Checking which users are currently online

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Hello!

I’m looking or the aid of a Who’s online scripts. Is that possible with Kirby? Displays which users are online now?

Thanks for help :relaxed:

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I think the most simple solution would be to save the online status of each user in the User object, as an additional “is_online” field or something similar. Then you could just filter all users by this field using $users->filterBy('is_online', 'online'). The only negative thing might be the need to update the user object each time someone logs in/out. This could be achieved with the user’s update function.

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Thanks!

Can I add $users->filterBy into the footer?

When I to this, than I became a error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function filterBy() on a non-object in …

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You have to define $users first with $site->users(): http://getkirby.com/docs/cheatsheet/site/users

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Okay $user->filterBy(‘is_online’, ‘online’) work.

But I can’t see any online User…

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Do you update your user information on login/logout to set the is_online field as @jakobploens suggested?

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Yes I have this do…

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So what does $users->filterBy('is_online', 'online') return if a user is currently logged in?

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I all User’s there are online…?

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So what is the problem? I don’t quite understand what’s missing.

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  1. when user logs in
  • add is_online via controller
  1. while user is logged
  • filter users by is_online
  1. when user logs out
  • remove is_online via controller

I think I get the idea (I’ll have to try it).
But kirby logs out the user automatically from time to time (not sure about the interval).

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You can change the interval from your Kirby configuration.

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