Login counter

[Misaka]

just checking in

bump

[®i©hie]

unfortunately i'm busy with other stuff at the moment, so i'll let another coder take this on if they'd like.

[Misaka]

ok thank you 

lets try some other coders "please don't shoot me" 
Peter Todge Shorty 

[Todge]

Ok.. I'll take a look at this.

I assume you want the info displayed in the main profile and not the mini-profile?

[Misaka]

correct

[Todge]

Ok.. Give this a try...

Plugin

[Misaka]

that was fast

...also sweet it works!
thank you

curiosity has me though I didn't think it was going to be this fast

edit:
is there a way to make it only work once?

tried it with my test account and it seems every new tab it instantly counts it as a new login for some strange reason could this be fixed?

[Todge]

I noticed that too, and unfortunately I'm not sure it can be fixed. Each new tab is essentially a new window being controlled separately by your browser, so in reality it is a separate login, just running concurrently with the previous one...

Open 3 separate tabs, and you have logged in 3 times.

I'll take another look to see if I can find a way of sensing the other open tabs, but I wouldn't hold your breath.

Sorry.

[Misaka]

Aug 20, 2013 15:18:37 GMT -8 Todge said:

I noticed that too, and unfortunately I'm not sure it can be fixed. Each new tab is essentially a new window being controlled separately by your browser, so in reality it is a separate login, just running concurrently with the previous one...

Open 3 separate tabs, and you have logged in 3 times.

I'll take another look to see if I can find a way of sensing the other open tabs, but I wouldn't hold your breath.

Sorry.

ok 

VS Admin Martyn Dale could you help us out with this problem?

[Todge]

I have an idea... What I have in mind is not infallible, but it should take into account multiple tabs.

If I get the code to kind of check in once in a while, I think I can get over that problem. The only problem I can see with what I have in mind, is that if you stay logged in for, say, over an hour without any input, then open a new tab, it will assume it's a new log-in, otherwise new tabs will be ignored.

It's a little more involved than the code you have now, but I'll try to get it done over the weekend.

[Peter]

Todge

Not sure entirely how your plugin is coded, but you can communicate between those tabs if that's what you need to do.

Storage events (I assume localStorage is being used?) or Shared Web workers (IE support not good 10+ I think). Depends on what you really need to do.



Misaka

Please don't message me to look in future, you already tagged me in this topic, that's good enough (it got my attention the first time).

Don't think I'm being rude, it's just that I am very busy with other stuff, so don't have time to work on requests right now.

[Misaka]

sorry Peter

Todge
thank you and sorry for the problem

[Todge]

Aug 21, 2013 10:14:25 GMT -8 Peter said:

Todge

Not sure entirely how your plugin is coded, but you can communicate between those tabs if that's what you need to do.

Storage events (I assume localStorage is being used?) or Shared Web workers (IE support not good 10+ I think). Depends on what you really need to do.

I was using sessionStorage as a way of stopping the counter from clocking up with each page load, but with each tab the browser assumes a new session, sessionStorage is cleared, and so the code counts another login. I didn't use localStorage, because if the user just navigates away or shuts down the browser localStorage would remain, so when the user returns the code would not see it as a new login. But I think I have a way around that now.

Thanks.

[Todge]

Misaka can you try the plugin now.

You can download it from the same link above. The only issue you may have, that I can see, is that if you return to the forum within 1 hour of leaving, it will not see that as a separate login.

That time can be shortened if you so wish.

[Misaka]

Aug 24, 2013 6:48:24 GMT -8 Todge said:

Misaka can you try the plugin now.

You can download it from the same link above. The only issue you may have, that I can see, is that if you return to the forum within 1 hour of leaving, it will not see that as a separate login.

That time can be shortened if you so wish.

ok that means if I logged out right now and logged back in it wouldn't count at all
right?


actually what I was gonna ask do you think that it could be increased to say 2 hours?