If you're talking about tracking the number of visitors with presently open sessions at your website... > > I was just browsing the tutorials form at PHP Developer Network and saw > this : http://forums.devnetwork.net/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=29342 > > Looks like it does what (I think) you were trying to describe. the above link winds up at a dead end, http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/04/50/index4a.html there are many ways to do this, depending upon how you store the session, you may be able to crawl a list of them. w/ the stock session support there are a number of files in /tmp, which would be a place to start. however, id probly just drop a counter in the database when a session is created and remove it when said session is destroyed. then all youd ever have to do is lookup that number. this you could achieve via session_set_save_handler() -nathan