User online offline status - offline status issue

Question

First this is related question of PHP: Online Offline Status But as my approch is little different and issue too so I thought new question would be better.

Now I ha

Answer 1

Without knowing your DB structur it's kind of a guess.

if ($time >= $loggedtime)

You are comparing a string like '2012-11-01 10:10:10' with whatever $time is in your DB. This seems to be the problem here. You could/should use UNIX timestamps. They can be compared easily.

If $time were a UNIX timestamp you could just do:

if ($time >= time()-300)

EDIT:

Change your query to get a UNIX timestamp for online

$query = 'SELECT userid, handle, UNIX_TIMESTAMP(online) as online FROM ^users ORDER BY userid ASC';

EDIT2: To make it more clear: In your first version you were comparing two Dates in the form '2012-11-01 10:10:10'

if ('2012-11-01 10:10:10' < '2012-11-02 10:10:10')

This can't work in PHP - it's like doing:

if ('apples' < 'bananas')

You have to compare numbers. Therefore i suggested using unix timestamps which can be easily compared.