Hello,
I store sessions in my database and I'd like to store a session_id with a user when they log in. How do I determine what a user's session id is?
The reason I want to do this is because I'd like to display users currently logged in.
If I can link a session to a user in my database, then I can check the updated_at column in the sessions table and determine who is active.
Is this the correct way to go about doing this?
thanks in advance, Chris.
Chris H wrote:
Hello,
I store sessions in my database and I'd like to store a session_id with a user when they log in. How do I determine what a user's session id is?
session.session_id
The reason I want to do this is because I'd like to display users currently logged in.
session.session_id won't help here as it applies to the current user only.
If I can link a session to a user in my database, then I can check the updated_at column in the sessions table and determine who is active.
Is this the correct way to go about doing this?
There was a similar discussion about this previously. Basically you already have access to the user session in the AR Store. You just need a way to differentiate a user session from anonymous ones, if you have both session types.
It might be possible to add a user_id column to the AR Store table and populate the column when a user logs in. Alternatively, record users in a separate user_table. You will have more flexibility in storing and managing user info with this approach.
HTH,
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Hi Chris,
Chris H wrote:
How do I determine what a user's session id is?
If I can link a session to a user in my database, then I can check the updated_at column in the sessions table and determine who is active.
session[:id] will give you the id of the current session, but I don't think that's what you'll end up wanting.
hth, Bill
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