[Phplib-users] Showing Who is Logged In

[Andrew C. <ph...@ev...>]

Well, after quite a bit of searching, I have been able to determine that 
this is a frequently-asked question.  I have found several references to 
looking it up in the archives.  However, I haven't been able to find a 
straight answer in the archives.  So, here it is:

Is there a way to display a list of who is logged in?  That is, can the 
entries in the active_sessions table be associated with the related entries 
in the auth_users (or auth_users_md5) table somehow?

What I want is something like the view_sessions.php3 script in the phplib 
distro but, that shows what user is associated with each session.  Thus, it 
should be easier to make a determination about who one is "kicking off" 
when one manually destroys a session, who is engaged in specific system 
activities, or who isn't logging out.

I imagine it might be possible to decode the contents of 
active_sessions.value and extract the necessary information 
somehow.  However, if someone already knows how this works and can explain 
it (or even has working code to do it,) it would be a lot less hassle than 
trying to reverse-engineer.

Andrew Crawford
ph...@ev...