Session Expiration

[shmick25]

When you make a session with php, is there any way to give it say 2 hours before the session expires? At the moment the session only expires if I destroy it with code or they close their browser down.

Cheers

[Weedpacket]

The question is a wee bit ambiguous, but there are a few entries in php.ini to look at:

; Lifetime in seconds of cookie or, if 0, until browser is restarted.
session.cookie_lifetime = 0

; After this number of seconds, stored data will be seen as 'garbage' and
; cleaned up by the garbage collection process.
session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440

And accompanying session_*() functions to modify them on a script-by-script and session-by-session basis.