{"id":3745,"date":"2021-03-11T13:46:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T13:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/?p=3745"},"modified":"2022-02-17T07:13:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T07:13:46","slug":"time-since-last-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/php\/date-and-time\/useful-code\/time-since-last-seen","title":{"rendered":"Time since last seen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Using a session value to store last seen DateTime<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>    \/\/----- CHECK FOR USER RETURNING AFTER A WHILE -----\n    $LastSeenDateTime = False;\n    if (isset($_SESSION&#91;'LastSeenDateTime']))\n      $LastSeenDateTime = strtotime($_SESSION&#91;'LastSeenDateTime']);\n\n    $TheDateTimeNow = strtotime(date(\"Y-m-d H:i:s\"));\n  \n    if ($LastSeenDateTime === False)\n      $LastSeenSecondsAgo = -1;\n    else\n      $LastSeenSecondsAgo = $TheDateTimeNow - $LastSeenDateTime;\n    \n    if (\n      ($LastSeenSecondsAgo &lt; 0) ||\n      ($LastSeenSecondsAgo > (5 * 60 * 60))   \/\/&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;Set time limit here\n    )\n    {\n      \/\/----------------------------------------------\n      \/\/----- USER HAS NOT BEEN SEEN FOR A WHILE -----\n      \/\/----------------------------------------------\n      \n      \n    }\n        \n    \/\/----- STORE NEW LAST SEEN TIMESTAMP -----\n    $_SESSION&#91;'LastSeenDateTime'] = date(\"Y-m-d H:i:s\");\n\n\n  \/\/If you want to reset if a user logs out, add this to your logout handler:\n  \/\/unset($_SESSION&#91;'LastSeenDateTime']);\n<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using a session value to store last seen DateTime<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-useful-code"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3748,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745\/revisions\/3748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}