Passively Tracking the Number of Online Users Through PHP Sessions

By: Rob Williams on Tuesday, April 12, 2011
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The ability to display the number of users who are currently on your website at any given time can be a big boost for both advertisers and end users. On the web, after all, popularity plays a major role in success. Today we're going to look at one of the easiest and also most efficient methods of gathering and presenting this "realtime information": PHP session counting.

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