Sessions help

[Sharif]

Well,

I finally got sessions down (understand it pretty well) and setup a little user section in my site with login and logout features. My main problem right now is when the user closes the browser, they are automatically logged out...

What can solve this? How can I keep the session variables on their computer so I can use it later and not have them log out until they go to the logout page which has the session_destroy() function in it.

Please help.

[coreyp_1]

Sessions are meant to be lost when the browser is closed.

If you want to enable viewers to come back later and still be logged in, you need to incorporate the use of cookies.

HTH

[Sharif]

So how can I store session variables in cookies? Any good tutorials out there I can use.

[yelvington]

First, look up session.gc_maxlifetime in the manual Unrefreshed sessions become subject to deletion after session.gc_maxlifetime seconds, regardless of what you might do to the cookie.

Then look up session.cookie_lifetime, which you will see defaults to 0 (cookie dies when browser is closed).

As noted on the manual page, you can change that value with a function call.

[Sharif]

Yelvington,

Thanks for the reply. The things you just told me to do, does any of them have to do with changing the php.ini file at all? If so, I can't do them then because my webhost does not allow me to change it.