Hi,

We are implementing the 'Visitors' module to draw some usage reports on our website. Also there is a requirement for us to implement a functionality to remember the users credentials in the user's machine. Hence we are thinking to use the Remember Me module. I have read somewhere that if I implement Remember Me, the Visitors module cannot generate the user frequency report as the cookies will store the session and hence the login-logout time cannot be recorded. Is this true? If so, can both of them co exist with any tweaks?

Any help is much appreciated.

Regards,
Ram

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nickl commented

I am not familiar with the visitors module.

Will investigate...

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nickl commented
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By default drupal will remember a user's session for just over 23 days which means that if a user was logged in, closes his browser and returns back to the site within this period he will not be required to log in again.

The Remember me module gives the user a choice if they want to be remembered or logged out if they closed their browser. In addition we also make it easier for you to change the period you want user's to be remembered for.

Unfortunately I do not think that any of the above scenarios satisfies your requirement of "remembering the user's credentials in the user's machine" as the user will still be required to supply their username and password when requested.

I installed the Visitors module but could not locate the frequency report referred to. Drupal uses a session cookie to track a user's session by default with or without Remember me so any report will have to keep this in mind. Since a user is never logged off unless logging out explicitly by default in Drupal it will seem that using Remember me to force the user to log in again after closing the browser there would be more frequent log ins than without so this will increase the efficacy of such a report rather than be a problem.

Hope these comments help, feel free to ask should anything be unclear.

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nickl commented
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (cannot reproduce)

No response for 6 weeks, closing.

Feel free to reopen the issue if more information becomes available.