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Modify Accuracy of X-Cart's Who's Online

Category: X-Cart Tutorials
Posted: Feb 2, 2010
Synopsis: X-Cart's "Who's Online" is commonly considered in-accurate. This posting allows you to increase or decrease the accuracy of this x-cart feature.

X-Cart's "Who's Online" feature is commonly considered "in-accurate" because it records all users who open a page with a 30-minute time period. This time frame can be reduced to make the module more accurate, or extended to create the "illusion" of a busier store, with the following code changes provided by Eugene on the x-cart forums:

How to make this x-cart module more accurate:

Open modules/Users_online/registered_user.php

Find:

$expiry_time = $curtime + $config["Sessions"]["session_length"];

Replace with:

$expiry_time = $curtime + 300; // 5 minutes instead of default session length

How to make this x-cart module less accurate:

Open modules/Users_online/registered_user.php

Find:

$expiry_time = $curtime + $config["Sessions"]["session_length"];

Replace with:

$expiry_time = $curtime + 3600; // 60 minutes instead of default session length

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