tracking users movements

[dudleys]

Hi,

I want to be able to track the movements of users on my site.
I of course would not do with heavy traffic.

I thought of using the Cache object and filling it with an object that has the username,time,web page executed.

Is this a wise thing to do.??
Could I create the object in the Cache on every request ny the user and if so which event would you recommend.

Thanks

 

[dudleys]

Should have said I want to track them while they are online.

 

[ca8msm]

You could just use a session level collection and a class to add your details (e.g. with username, time and web page). You can then simply add each class to the session collection each time a page loads.

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[dudleys]

NOt sure I know what you mean because a Session variable is only accessiable that user session.

I want to logon as admin user and load a page that will fill a table with users logged on and the other details.

Can you explain your method?

 

[ca8msm]

There are quite a few ways of doing it. I can't fid the exact article that I'm thinking of at the moment, but it was something like the following examples which simply use session and application variables to hold a count of logged in users:

http://www.aspwebpro.com/aspscripts/statistics/activeusers.asp

http://www.developersdex.com/gurus/articles/78.asp

These could be easily adapted to store a collection of classes (like I described above).

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