Good question. It's tough to know who or whether someone is actually there because logouts are not enforced. Any kind of non-time-based counting or listing algorithm would end up with zombies really quick. However, for what you seem to need, you could compare the latest chat item's bobobase_modification_time with the current ZopeTime(). Then you could say, for example, that someone has posted in the last five minutes or so. I think that's how I would do it. Let me know what you figure out. I may add a notifier like that into the next version. -- Jim Washington "Brendon Grunewald (70South)" wrote:

I would like to put an image or different text at several places in the site when ever there is at least one person logged into the ZRTChat chatroom. i.e. a light on the front page to indicate that there is a chat session presently underway in the chatroom. Question: How can I accomplish the following algorithm, <If logged in users exist> display image or text a <else> display image or text b <fi>

Basically I need to know how I can access a variable or other data type that will tell me whether there is anyone logged on when the page in question is requested. If no such variable exists, is there some other way of accomplishing this!

Thanks Brendon

-- Brendon Grunewald http://www.70south.com mailto:brendon@70south.com