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(Message started by: Arimabuff on May 1^st, 2008, 10:06am)

Title: About the chat room.
Post by Arimabuff on May 1^st, 2008, 10:06am

I think it would be nice to know how many people are in there (from the oustide that is).

Title: Re: About the chat room.
Post by aaaa on May 1^st, 2008, 10:10am

This actually used to be shown before.

Title: Re: About the chat room.
Post by omar on May 2^nd, 2008, 3:46pm

I had looked into that when we switch to this chat room, but found that it wasn't as simple to get that value with this version. I'll check into again later.

Title: Re: About the chat room.
Post by leo on May 4^th, 2008, 12:06am

Ah, I forgot about that. A server script like this may do the job, although I'm not sure about the best way to call it from the (perl?) scripts that generate the gameroom page:

userscount.php (for instance):
require ('config.php');
$usersfile = fopen ($usersdat, 'r');
flock ($usersfile, LOCK_SH); # shared (read-only) advisory lock
print count (@unserialize (fgets ($usersfile)));
fclose ($usersfile);

EDIT: if it's handled by client side javascript it's simpler to call it

Title: Re: About the chat room.
Post by omar on May 5^th, 2008, 9:59am

on 05/04/08 at 00:06:23, leo wrote:

Ah, I forgot about that. A server script like this may do the job

Thanks Leo. That saved me a lot of time trying to figure out how to get the count.