PHP session timeout problem

[webnewone]

Hi,

I'm using PHP sessions with a MySql backed mebership management system.

The member is able to update and add articles. However, users have reported that if they spend a long time in the member center, when they click the button to add their article to the database they are redirected to the login page and they've lost everything they've typed!

I'm thinking this is because my host has set the php.ini file to expire session vars every 15mins (something to do with garbage collection routines, I'm told). Can I extend the life of a session using php withouth changing the php.ini file?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Gavin

[leatherback]

Hi,

You could consider building a second session yourself: Add a table, inwhich you keep track of the last action of each user, based on hteir IP number. If the sessionID has changed, you add al lthe login-information from yor database into the session again, if you think they should be entitled to keep using the registered user features.

Hope this helps,

J.

[AstroTeg]

Leatherback's approach is a good idea.

My thought was to use cookies to keep track of the session state since you can control when they expire, and then store whatever you were to store in the session you store in the database. Basically, Leatherback's approach...