Limit Users page views per day

[dnleeb]

Hi there,

I'm trying to redirect a user at login if they have logged in 3 or more times in one day. I'm pretty new to asp and cant find anything to track individual users logins that will reset at the end of every day. Let me know if you have any advice.

Thanks

[jhardman]

Hi there,

I'm trying to redirect a user at login if they have logged in 3 or more times in one day. I'm pretty new to asp and cant find anything to track individual users logins that will reset at the end of every day. Let me know if you have any advice.

Thanks

It might be easiest to do with cookies, using a db would be surer (cookies aren't 100% reliable) but slower and take more server power. make sure you set the cookie expire attribute to be a day, then send a cookie to the user during the log in that counts the number of logins. If that number is greater than 3, refuse the login. Let me know if this helps.

Jared

[ilearneditonline]

It might be easiest to do with cookies, using a db would be surer (cookies aren't 100% reliable) but slower and take more server power. make sure you set the cookie expire attribute to be a day, then send a cookie to the user during the log in that counts the number of logins. If that number is greater than 3, refuse the login. Let me know if this helps.

Jared

Depending on the environment you are in, this may not work. For example, I have 3 PC running right now. If you use cookies, I could actually get in 9 times a day. Like Jared says, db is surer because it doesn't depend on a user pc. But depending on the size of the site, that could really slow it down.

[dnleeb]

Thanks, how do i use the db to limit the page views?
Sorry... I'm pretty new to all of this

It might be easiest to do with cookies, using a db would be surer (cookies aren't 100% reliable) but slower and take more server power. make sure you set the cookie expire attribute to be a day, then send a cookie to the user during the log in that counts the number of logins. If that number is greater than 3, refuse the login. Let me know if this helps.

Jared

[JamieHowarth0]

In pseudo-code (with a bit of real ASP code in there), you'd do it like this:

Sub DoLogin
     Set objDbConn = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
     strConn = "Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};DBQ=" & Server.MapPath("/youraccessdb.mdb")
     objDbConn.Open strConn

     Set rsLoginUser = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
     strSQL = "SELECT * FROM tbl_Users WHERE EmailAddy = " & Request.Form("login_email")
     rsLoginUser.Open strSQL, objDbConn, 1, 1

     If rsLoginUser.RecordCount > 0 Then
         ' Found a user!
         If rsLoginUser("UserPW") = Request.Form("login_pw") Then
                 'Login OK, check daily login limit
                 If CInt(rsLoginUser("DailyCounter")) < 3 Then
                       'Login OK, add 1 to Login count
                       rsLoginUser.Update "DailyCounter", rsLoginUser("DailyCounter") + 1
                 Else
                       'Login OK but count not, kick user
                 End If
         Else
               'Dud password, kick user
         End If
     Else
          ' Dud email, kick user
     End If
End Sub

Don't quote me on the ADO method of updating the number of logins though - normally I'd use a quick SQL Update query to do it myself but that's my personal perference.

I definitely agree with mods though - DB is much better than using cookies - imagine someone in an empty web cafe... lol. Or worse - someone that's simply disabled cookies - or clears them at end of every session.

Hope it helps!

[dnleeb]

Thanks... this seems like it'll work