Sessions, not cookies...

Teach

Hello,

Not sure if this is easily achieved, but I'm using a PHP login script (based on sessions) that I created.

I want to add two session variables which contains the time a user logged in and the date.

For the date syntax we wanted to use something like: 21/04/2005
For the time syntax: 14:34:33

and then be able to echo each out - so for example two variables 'LOGINDATE' and 'LOGINTIME'

I've tried all various forms of using date() but after about a minute I just get figures like 2893292... how else can I do this please?

We are not using any form of database for the login script, the actual logins are in our 'login.php' encrypted as MD5 hashes for the passwords.

$_SESSION['logindate'] = date("d/m/Y"); 
$_SESSION['logintime'] = date("H:i:s");

The only way I've managed to get this going is with cookies, though I really wanted to keep using sessions for it all.

At the moment (working) we're using in my login.php:

setcookie('logindate', date('d/m/Y'));
setcookie('logintime', date('H:i:s'));

and echo'ing it out with:

echo $_COOKIE['logindate'];
echo $_COOKIE['logintime'];

Our logout.php (to unset the logged in session variable, and unset the cookies is like):

include_once('/home/us/protect.php'); 

setcookie('logindate', '', time()-60); 
setcookie('logintime', '', time()-60); 

unset($_SESSION['logged']); 
header("Location: [url]http://www.domain.com/secure/login.php[/url]"); 
exit();

Any help on this would be very much appreciated.
Thank you.

planetsim

Using this code

<?php

session_start();

$_SESSION['logindate'] = date("d/m/Y"); 
$_SESSION['logintime'] = date("H:i:s");

print_r($_SESSION);

?>

I had no troubles with.

Array ( [logindate] => 25/04/2005 [logintime] => 14:14:56 )

Can you show us exactly what you are doing?

Teach

Hi there.
Thanks for the reply.

As I mentioned, for the first few minutes or so, if you echo it out it works.
Then after a few minutes (refreshing) it changes just to a UNIX timestamp like 2989289327.

planetsim

Well you must be doing something with the sessions, like i said showing us more code would probably help. As ive tried on my Dev Box, and Server and both having the same results.

Teach

Hi there.
Thanks for the reply.

Did you let it go for a few minutes, then refresh the page again and see if it still tells you the same date/time and not a unix timestamp? As mentioned, we find it fine for a few minutes.

Here's my code though:

Code removed, more simple way below.

Teach

Hi there.

Okay, I just removed my big paste of code above as the below does the same thing.

I created a simple test.php with:

<?php
 session_start();

 $_SESSION['logged'] = true;
 $_SESSION['username'] = dan;
 $_SESSION['ip'] = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
 $_SESSION['logindate'] = date('d/m/Y');
 $_SESSION['logintime'] = date('H:i:s');

 print_r($_SESSION); 
 ?>

Which when run produces everything perfectly:

Array ( [logged] => 1 [username] => dan [ip] => my.ip [logindate] => 25/04/2005 [logintime] => 23:12:54 )

However, if you leave it a while minutes then refresh test.php, I get the same, but the logintime increases to the current time. Basically what I'm wanting is that it just keeps the time and date that the login occured so this can be echo'ed out until they logout. This is meant to be the time and date of the login, not current.

Any ideas?

Teach

Any ideas please?

Shrike

If you rerun the same script of course the time will get updated. Try adding a bit of code to see if the script is being run for the first time.

<?php 
session_start(); 
if(!isset($_SESSION['logged']))
{
  $_SESSION['logged'] = true; 
  $_SESSION['username'] = dan; 
  $_SESSION['ip'] = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; 
  $_SESSION['logindate'] = date('d/m/Y'); 
  $_SESSION['logintime'] = date('H:i:s'); 
}
print_r($_SESSION);  

?>

planetsim

Ok it seems your session dies out, then gets recreated. Look at extending the session.gc_maxlifetim.

[man]session[/man] for more information.