Timers and additions

[X-Ception]

I'm wanting to create a script thats works on the basis of start and stop on a per user level with addition of time...

for example:

<nick> !login
<bot> Nick you're now logged in
<nick2> !login
<bot> Nick2 you're now logged in

While logged in a timer or similar is running basically counting mins which are written to a file

<nick2> !logout
<bot> Nick2 you're now logged out

in the file it should say similar to:

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Nick1 has been logged in for 0 hours 10 mins 23 seconds 

Seconds not really needed but for hours and mins its a must, this file then must restart once every 7 days ( renaming the old one to log.lastweek ..whatever )

I'm very uncomfy with timers and ive not worked too often if ever with additions in this manner could someone give me some tips, a starting point or even better point me to one that does the above already ( never know huh ? )

note
The basis of login is NOT based on bots userlist but users on a specific channel - anyone on said channel must be able to login/out

preferbly with a specific flag being able to log users out that failed to log themselves out

[caesar]

No need for timers. Just use the [unixtime] when they login and the difference from NOW in unixtime and the last unixtime recorded:

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set now [unixtime]
set difference [expr [unixtime - $now]]
set duration [duration $difference]

Also, if all of your users use a specific credentials then I would go for XTRA fields in the userfile for each user in particular.

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setuser $hand XTRA LAST [unixtime]

and to see the actual online time use something like:

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set last [getuser $hand XTRA LAST]
set difference [expr [unixtime - $last]]
set duration [duration $difference]

[demond]

The basis of login is NOT based on bots userlist but users on a specific channel - anyone on said channel must be able to login/out

then you need to develop an authorization system first; or by "login" you mean simply recording current time for the user issued that command?

[wiz(andrew)]

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if {[onchan $nick $chan] } {...}

?

[X-Ception]

by "login" you mean simply recording current time for the user issued that command?

yup

[X-Ception]

Well the reason i thought the use of timers would be needed was it needs to be started and stoped by the user and then recorded to a text file/database file of some format so the administration can see WHO is actually putting in what amount of times on a per week basis, but none of the users will be on the userlist

[nml375]

You should be able to use most of caesar's script. Just have to use variables to store "logon-time", rather than the user database fields.. (arrays with nicks as index comes to mind)

Only use for timers that I could possibly see, would be some automated logout-feature. Although this would probably be easier to implement without timers aswell.

As for writing to the logfile, I'd either write on "!logout", or on a regular basis using "bind time". Log rotation would be implemented using "bind time" or "bind evnt".