This allow users or anonymous to see who are connected
It simply chech who has updated a page in the last 5 minutes

See .patch.txt for more details

Thanks for contributing such feature. I think it will be a nice addition to Mantis. We just need to think where it should be shown and in what format.

My comment on the concept is that I would rather have a configurable access level threshold that determines who can see the online users (for example, DEVELOPER) rather than just an ON / OFF.

I will review the code and put more comments later.

Are you going to add thease features ? if you dont i can.

I implemented the following in user_api.php, based on your patch. I still have to add the GUI for it. I think we should also have the config as a threshold which specifies the minimum threshold that is needed to see the config, or NOBODY to disable the feature.

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Return an array of user ids that are logged in.
A user is considered logged in if the last visit timestamp is within the
specified session duration.
If the session duration is 0, then no users will be returned.
function user_get_logged_in_user_ids( $p_session_duration_in_minutes ) {

$t_session_duration_in_minutes = (integer)$p_session_duration_in_minutes;
# if session duration is 0, then there is no logged in users.
if ( $t_session_duration_in_minutes == 0 ) {
    return array();
}

# Generate timestamp
# @@@ The following code may not be portable accross DBMS.
$t_last_timestamp_threshold = mktime( date( "H" ), date( "i" ) -1 * $t_session_duration_in_minutes, date("s"), date("m"), date("d"),  date("Y") );
$c_last_timestamp_threshold = date( "Y-m-d H:i:s" , $t_last_timestamp_threshold );

$t_user_table = config_get( 'mantis_user_table' );

# Execute query
$query = "SELECT id FROM $t_user_table WHERE last_visit > '$c_last_timestamp_threshold'";
$result = db_query( $query, 1 );

# Get the list of connected users
$t_users_connected = array();
while ( $row = db_fetch_array( $result ) ) {
    $t_users_connected[] = $row['id'];
}

return $t_users_connected;
}

I noticed once that code and wondered where/when it was supposed to be included in the GUI...

any plans for it?

Hi guys,

I'm also interested in this feature?
Any plans when this will be included in the GUI?

Thanks,
Stefan

@stefang. AFAICT, right now it's more a matter of "where" we put that info in the current pages.

any idea?

I think a good place would be below the menu.
If activated you can see recently viewed issues on the right side but I think
left side is empty.
So you would see youself above the menu and all the others just below it.

(just an idea)

Hmmmm, should just be visible for Administrator though, shouldn't it?
So I would suggest to put it under the "Manage" menu.

Imho that seems to be no big difference to the last visit column you already have on the manage page, (which I'd like to have visible for project managers too (not only admins)).

For the "logged in" users I'd vote to have it "more visible" (instead of a submenu).

@ stefang.

I'm sure visibility will be controlled by YACP (Yet Another Configuration Parameter)

Of course, I am open for suggestions about the default value

I think we should get some ideas from the forums (see http://www.mantisbt.org/forums) powered by phpBB3. It shows on the index page a list of all active users anonymous and registered. Then on the forum threads it shows an online icon next to users who are online.

Following is a sample of the users only section on the index page:

Who is online

In total there are 6 users online :: 3 registered, 0 hidden and 3 guests (based on users active over the past 5 minutes)
Most users ever online was 219 on Sun Jul 01, 2007 7:51 pm

Registered users: Google [Bot], vboctor, Yahoo [Bot]
Legend: Administrators, Global moderators

Now that we support plugins, I believe this functionality should be implemented as a plugin, rather than be part of the core. What do you think?

It's fine as a plug-in. Is there a list with all the available plug-ins? I expected a link in the Download page or somewhere, but I couldn't find one (sorry if it's a stupid question, I'm new to Mantis, and to bugtrackers in general).

@Zamolxis: http://www.mantisforge.org/dev/manual/master/en/developers.html#DEV.PLUGINS and the source

Is this a plugin already? Would very much like to use it ! :)