The Energon Pub

How does PHP BB know who's browsing? Or, more accurately, who's still browsing?

It's easy enough to know who is visiting a certain forum: whatever usernames load the page. But how does it know when someone leaves? I suppose if someone visits another part of the site. But how does it know when someone just shuts down their browser or goes elsewhere on the web? Does it take their name off after X minutes of inactivity?

Always wondered this.

Grim, you have too much free time on your hands.

Yes. Yes, I do.

Me, Grimlock! wrote:Yes. Yes, I do.

well put something else in your hands then

tequila stu wrote:well put something else in your hands then

I think this is going to have to occupy both my brain cells for the time being.

I do believe that when a user hasn't clicked on anything new after 15 minutes, they're automatically removed from the active users list.