I am not very good with MySQL yet and I'm not sure if the direct problem is because of that or my logic is messed up.

I want a USERS ONLINE script. It shows how many people are online within the past 5 minutes. It also shows how many uniques were shown 24 hours ago (not every day, but 24 hours ago from whatever time it is).

The users online part works but the 24 hour users don't seem to be resetting. Everyday the number grows and grows and grows. So is my logic messed up for clearing all data from over 24 hours ago? 

my $timenow = time();
$minutes = $minutes * 60;
my $timemin = $timenow - $minutes;

my $data = qq(DELETE FROM now_time WHERE lasttime < "$timemin");
my $sth = $dbh->prepare($data);
$sth->execute() or die $dbh->errstr;

my $day = 60 * 60 * 24;
my $timeday = $timenow - $day;

my $data = qq(DELETE FROM day_time WHERE lasttime < "$timeday");
my $sth = $dbh->prepare($data);
$sth->execute() or die $dbh->errstr;

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2005-09-14 Retitled by g0n, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: 'Removing something from MySQL table based on time'

In reply to (OT) Removing something from MySQL table based on time by Anonymous Monk

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