Sessions

intenz

Normally when I create sessions, they get destroyed when I close my browser windows.
Is it possible to adjust them so they won't get destroyed until after a hour or do I have to use cookies for that?
I know how to adjust destroy time with cookies, but not with sessions.

Help? 😃

Henri

I think you need to write the session info to a txt file for that.

theslinky

Try setting a cookie with the session cookie's name (basically overriding it) and the session_id as the value and set the lifetime of it to something long so it will last when you reload your browser.

-sridhar

mr_tron

If you have access to the php.ini file, you can change it there.
Setting the session-cookie lifetime to whatever you want.

you can also change stuff like which domain it should set to, and for which path it should be valid.

Else. Maybe you can have a .htaccess file that overrides the default php.ini file?

Weedpacket

Originally posted by mr_tron
If you have access to the php.ini file, you can change it there.
Setting the session-cookie lifetime to whatever you want.

you can also change stuff like which domain it should set to, and for which path it should be valid.

Else. Maybe you can have a .htaccess file that overrides the default php.ini file?

...except that it's the browser that is destroying its session info when it closes - nothing to do with the server.

This is of course normal behaviour for session variables - hence the name.

But like theslinky said - stash the sessionid in a suitably short-lived cookie on the client machine for later retrieval.

mr_tron

ok. I thought we were discussing cookies.