Session timeout set on script

hrosas

Hello, I've a doubt with session and its setting, I can set the session timeout in php.ini and that's seems to work right, but when I set the session timeout in a script(1) different to the value in php.ini does php can handle the timeout? The script executes and reads a line like
ini_set("session.gc_maxlifetime", 1600000)
then the script die, does php keep that information? If another client executes another script(2) that doesnt have that timeout, php stills keep that timeout set by the script(1)? if the first user leaves the application open and then return 5 hrs laters, the php session is still open?
I hope someone has answer, I tried to set a small timeout in php.ini and a big one in ini_set, but it seems that the session timeout set in ini_set doesn't last the value it wast set.
Thanks in advanced.

Hector.

bpat1434

Well, you could always check to see if you're setting it:

<?php
$timeout = ini_set("session.gc_maxlifetime", 1600000);

if(empty($timeout) || (!$timeout)){
    echo "Timeout setting could not be set.";
}
else{
    echo "Timeout setting successfully appended!!";
}
?>

I believe that the timeout setting isn't permanently changed, but rather for the user/viewer of the script that set it. And two users from different computers would set the timeout each time. If you want to change globally the timeout, the you would want to change php.ini.

~Brett

hrosas

Thanks for your reply bpat1434, I check that and the seting is always ok, but what I discovered is that setting session.gc_maxlifetime works good, the problem is that if other script doesn't set the same value to the propertie, the maxlifetime is set to the php.ini value. I'm currently in a shared hosting, no access to php.ini, and some other companies are hosted in the same server, I think we use the same php/apache instance, so if I change the gc_maxlifetime to a higher value, it'll work but because there are other script runing by diferent people, the value is reseted and my maxlifetime set by a ini_set get lost. So the ini_set is useless in a shared environment, my alternative here, I think is, using .htaccess but, I need to modify mi htttpd.conf to allow .htaccess usage, and I have no access to that file too. Anyway just sharing that information I discovered. Thanks.

Hector.