Hiya peeps,

I am being driven insane by one of my site moderators who is constantly reporting to me that users are showing as being logged in when there is no sign of them having being logged in for days (or weeks) in the members search module (using last-logged-in search criteria).

He has been phoning me to report that some (random) member have been logged in for 1, 2 or 3 days, and yet I will go visit the website myself and they will not be showing as logged in for me. Also checked with a few members who were reported as "being logged in" and they claimed they hadn't attempted to visit the site at those times when they were showing as online.

I've been twiddling about for several months now looking for a common denominator in all this - considering issues such as site caching, local browser caching, members not remembering to log out, stale site cookies etc etc etc but can't for the life of me find any regular pattern of who and when it happens.

I did manage to reproduce the anomoly once on my my locally mirrored copy of the website after clearing my local browser cache/cookies, but still no clues there either.

So are there some other factors I should be investigating here? Or is it possible there is a bug in the module?

I'm using the default "whos online" on XOOPS 2.0.10.

Any feedback gratefully accepted.

Cheers
Z

PS: I should also mention that I was using this hack by Mithrandir here (with the extra lines of code which excludes site admin from being restricted by the hack) but I tried restoring the original code for a few weeks to see if it fixed that problem and there was no difference, so I added Mith's hack back into the checklogin.php again.