keep track of logged-in users in a website
Thanx in advance. :)
[537 byte] By [Vinutha] at [2007-11-11 8:34:36] 
Hi guys,cud someone plz give me the source code in jsp to keep track of all the users who are downloading files from my website.I am working on building a website.I have provided provision for a user to register with the site by entering his email-id and password.Registered users are allowed to download certain catalogs.I want a code in JSP to keep track of the names of the users who download and the name of the catalog/file downloaded.I am using NetBeans5.0 IDE withPointBase database. Plz help me out.
Thanx in advance. :)
# 1 Re: keep track of logged-in users in a website
do you already have the signin and authentification part?usually in jsp you use the HttpSession class to store temporary information about what the user did. it's basically something like a extended (serverside) cookie.
on any action of a user, after login and authentication, you will have to store all that information into a database to have a persistent way to store your information.
graviton at 2007-11-11 22:35:00 >
# 2 Re: keep track of logged-in users in a website
Hi Graviton,Thanx.Yes I do have the registration,Login and authentication part.
Vinutha at 2007-11-11 22:35:59 >
# 3 Re: keep track of logged-in users in a website
i guess the authentication is done against a database table. so you have a primary key (pk) for a user. now you could create another table, eg. user_downloads.this should have a reference to the pk of the user and a textfield to store the information about which file was downloaded.
in the download jsp you now can insert a new record containing the download of the corresponding user.
graviton at 2007-11-11 22:37:03 >
# 4 Re: keep track of logged-in users in a website
Just to add to graviton, you can have the download automatic so it downloads when a user goes to the page and have the page do the database processing.major at 2007-11-11 22:38:03 >
