[groovico]

X-cart uses three different ways of storing user sessions, it can store them in the mysql db, in filesystem, and also has a default option only called "other method", it's down to how you set your config up.

If you rely on x-cart sessions, anyone on your static catalog won't be counted in users online and you'll also be tied into the x-cart session time out too.

Only those on the php side of the cart that have actually started a session would be counted. You could have 10 users on the static HTML pages and only 1 user who used the search or added anything to the cart so it would show 1 user online instead of 11.

The catalog part would also constantly show "0 users online".

It's only an issue though if you rely on the static catalog for search engines traffic.

It's actually got me curious now, if we have a bit of time at firetank we'll see if we can code up something that works happily on all pages of the site.