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Topic: Advice: Use Active Users with IM

Posted By: paulhg
Subject: Advice: Use Active Users with IM
Date Posted: 23 October 2004 at 4:52pm

I have read several posting on Active Users and how it's more reliable with the latest version. I'm about to integrate a FlashCom application so that users can chat live with video/voice. Not sure whether I should use the Active Users that comes with the forum or create a new table that is updated with an iframe that refreshes every now and then.

The iframe would update a new table with username login timestamp and last active. An SQL server job would delete old entries where last active is less than x miutes ago.

Is it worth it? Is Active Users sufficient (in which case all i have to do is add an icon that launces the flashcom app next to username in active_users.asp)? I feel like I don't need to worry about server processing if i use an iframe since this is on a dedicated server with an sql server db. I don't have the knowledge/experience to determine if this is better than using the current webwiz active users (and application variables).

Any feedback greatly appreciated!

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 23 October 2004 at 5:16pm

As active users are now kept in an application level array you can get the data from anywhere on your site using ASP and getting the data from the application level array.

This means that you don't need the Iframe and hopefully shouldn't need the database either.

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