[SOLVED] Show "Image" Depends On User "Status"?

Monie · October 8th, 2007, 01:50 AM

Hai guys,

Is it possible if I want to show 2 different kind of image (for example: online and offline gif) depends on the "status" of the user?

In my page, when the user login, it will set the user "status" (a field in my database) to be "Online" and when he logout, it will set the "status" to "Offline".

So when the user has logged in, I want to display the Online.gif just beside the user name. Just like a toggle function in javascript.

Code:

if "status" == Online {
display "online.gif"
}
else
display "offline.gif"

If this things can be done in any other way other that javascript, please tell me,

Thanks....

Rakuli · October 8th, 2007, 06:45 AM

Hi monie,

What type of server side scripting do you have available? You can't achieve this with javascript alone as javascript has no knowledge of what other user's are up to.

If you have PHP, I can help you. Let me know and I'll move this thread over there.

Cheers,

Monie · October 8th, 2007, 09:51 PM

I am using ASP (..currently learning PHP-WAMP)

If you can teach me using PHP, go on. I'll learn by doing. If you know the ASP way, maybe it will be easier for me to understand...

Thanks by the way...

Monie · October 12th, 2007, 12:58 PM

Any thing so far Rakuli?

Rakuli · October 12th, 2007, 06:15 PM

Hi Monie, sorry I missed this one. If you have a look at http://www.webforumz.com/php-forum/6...-beginners.htm it has some links to PHP starter tutorials but it may be easier for you to see the ASP way

Moving to the ASP forum

robbied72 · October 15th, 2007, 06:18 AM

Hi Monie,

Is this for a forum kind of "User Online"? if so you will need to flag it in the database, if you just want an image to show to the user that is logged in then you can just use a session variable and us the following:-

Code:

<%If Session("svUserName") <> "" Then%>
Code for the online image goes here......
<%Else%>
Code for the offline image goes here......
<%End If%>

Monie · October 15th, 2007, 10:22 PM

Yes, I did it. Thanks robbied.

Code:

<%
    Session("userStatus") = rs("status")
    If Session("userStatus") = "Online" Then
        Response.Write ("<img src=img/online.gif>")
    Else
        Response.Write ("<img src=img/offline.gif>")
    End If
%>