Session Timeout

[Anon]

Hi

I have an issue with session timeouts...my Hosting ppl have set php.ini to time sessions out after 1440 seconds...

this is an issue because i currently have a survey form running on my site that ppl seem to take their time filling in....

how can I up the session timeout when I do not have access to the ini file? can i do this using php_value in a htaccess file (like you can do with include_path????)

any ideas will earn a free beer/pizza/gin/all 3 in the afterlife....

[van__]

Well, 1440 secs is the default lifetime for a session... so they really didn't set it, they just gave you a vanilla install, like most commodity server hosts would.

I haven't tried this, since I have %root on my server but....

<?
ini_set('session.gc_maxlifetime',2000);
?>

should work.

Note that it only sets the value for the script that carries it.