[geeklog-devel] Geeklog Sessions

[Tom]

Okay,

I have Geeklog tracking ongoing anonymous sessions properly now.  At some
point I will be adding a column to the sessions table called topic. The
topic column will be added to the $_User variable and will allow Geeklog and
plugins to figure out which topic to display. 

I am thinking that I should add a another column to the sessions table for
the who's online block. Right now the who's online block deletes records
from the sessions table that reaches the Session Threshold defined in the
configuration under the who's online block (default 300 seconds). We also
have the  Session Timeout (default 2 hours) and Permanent Timeout options
under Cookies. I think the session records should only be deleted when the
Session Timeout is reached. The who's online block should just flag records
in the sessions table that do not meet its standard of being online.

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: geeklog-devel-bounces at lists.geeklog.net
[mailto:geeklog-devel-bounces at lists.geeklog.net] On Behalf Of Tom
Sent: October-01-11 10:32 AM
To: 'Joe Mucchiello'; 'Geeklog Development'
Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] Geeklog Topics - This is how they will work

I just looked at the session code a bit and I see what you mean. Anonymous
users are not really tracked. As far as I can tell no session cookie is set
for them and the session id just keeps changing when an anonymous user goes
from page to page, it looks like anonymous users are just tracked by ip.

I do not really want to get into modifying the session library but it looks
like I probably do not have a choice if this is the direction I want to go.
The library probably should be rewritten to use php sessions but that is
beyond the scope of what I have planned to do.

Does anyone have a problem if I go ahead and add in anonymous user tracking
by the use of the session cookie and then add in the ability of Geeklog to
set the current topic in the Geeklog sessions table? Would this create any
problems elsewhere?

Tom



 



-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:geeklog-devel-bounces at lists.geeklog.net] On Behalf Of Joe Mucchiello
Sent: September-30-11 9:21 PM
To: geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net
Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] Geeklog Topics - This is how they will work

When I last looked at this, the problem was the session code. I don't think
it has changed much since then. There is no reliable way to find out what
session is the "current" session because lib-session does not expose such a
variable. And there are a few edge cases in the code that makes it a bit of
a hassle to try exposing the session with a healthy restructuring of the
session code. IIRC, going from not logged in to logged in is one of those
edge cases.

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