It would be really neat to be able to see login stats by user week by week or month by month. A lot of forums require their members to be on the forum certain amount of times per week or month to keep their membership. Any chance this could be added?
Is this even possible?
*bump*
I'd like to see this as well.
Rob
You can check inactive users in the admin control panel so some of this info exists.
Inactive in terms of posting yes, but I want to see how many times people log in, not just post.
I would agree on a slightly different thing...
I'd like to see some kind of "personal statistics" about user login history.
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[angelofwisdom]
29-05-2007 23:46
30-05-2007 02:13
30-05-2007 14:32
30-05-2007 15:50
30-05-2007 17:10
30-05-2007 17:26
30-05-2007 19:30
30-05-2007 21:48
and these statistics would appear on each user's profile.
I sometimes feel I need something like this to know if a specific user was online between <xx:xx> and <yy:yy>, even though I know it was online later.
Would this be too much? (or shall I create a new thread?)
One thing that I can say as far as this. I would see about maybe resetting the Total Time online to be able to use that because there are people, like myself, that prefer to always stay logged in and therefore I wouldn't log into my account every day but I could very well be online that week for plenty of time.
Perhaps you are looking for something of a modification of the Total Time online feature?
Even if you keep yourself logged in all the time, there is a way to tell when you actually start a new browsing "session". It's enough to set an arbitrary period for the desired length. Every time you open a page on the forum, the system registers you as active. If the last "active" time was more then let's say 1 hours ago, then it's safe to assume that you just came back from somewhere and wasn't active in the past 1 hour. It's an assumption, and it could be that you spent all the hour at the computer browsing other sites, but that's irrelevant, because as a forum admin I only want to know when you are active on my forum. It's pretty rare that one will read a topic for one hour.
So what should be done in this case is to create a new log table in the database and save the approximate activity periods.
The table should have fields like: ID_MEMBER, start_time, end_time
On page load check if there is a last active time was set.
If there was no last activity set then this is the first time, so just add a row in the table with the ID of the member and start_time with the current time. Leave end_time empty. Set the last_active field to the current time too.
If there is a last active time set then check the difference between it and the current time.
If it's smaller then x minutes then we're still in the same session, so just set the last_active to the current time.
If it's larger then we have a new session. In this case you should have a row in the database with (ID_MEMBER,some_start_date, empty_end_date). You set the end_date of that row to (current_time-x minutes) to close down the session, and add a new row with the current_time as start_date. You also set last_active to current_time.
In this case you have an approximation on the periods the user is actually online on your forum. The x minutes can be a setting, so as a forum admin I can choose how approximate I want. It's not perfect, but close to.
I'm writing this so maybe someone can translate it in php. Unfortunately I don't really have the time to do it these days (read weeks).
Not necessarily, I browse a lot of RP sites where it could take me 2 plus hours to read one page of a RP depending on the length, amount of posts per page and quality of the posts it could take me more or less time then someone next to me.
I guess if you require a Max amount then it could work but not everyone that is active is clicking in the set amount of time you require but I guess you can get an average of the average people that click under that limit you personally set.
Lainaus käyttäjältä: Captain_Morrigan - kesäkuu 18, 2007, 02:45:17 AP
but I guess you can get an average of the average people that click under that limit you personally set.
That's the idea. Having it in like a setting would allow forum admins to adjust the length to their needs, communities.
That would be an awesome mod! Anyone up for it ? :)