Sessions forever cookies never'...

[MtPHP]

How do I make a session last forever? I finally got sessions working but whenever a user closes his/her browser it kills his/her session(s). How do I stop it from killing them?

[ereptur]

You can't. That's the point of a session. It only exists as long as the user has their browser open. You will need to use cookies to make the session persistant.

[jonsof]

But if you copy the url of a page which contains the session and close the broswer then when you open it again pasting the copied url you will notice that the sessions hasn;t expired.

[MtPHP]

Ok, but I only know sessions. So how would I use cookies to keep sessions active forever?

[ereptur]

You can set a cookie by simply:

$somevalue = "some value you want to persist";
$cookie_expiry = time() + strtotime("+ 3 month");
setcookie("cookiename",$value,$cookie_expiry);

This will set a cookie that lasts 3 months. You would then write your code to update the cookie whenever they visit your site.

You can retrieve the value by accessing $_COOKIE["cookiename"]