Expired Sessions

Galavantes

Ok. Basically I need some way for my code to be able to tell if a certain session ID is still valid. IE: they;ve closed their browser, or lost net connection, or whatever.
How can I determine that?

bogu

Session dont expire they are destroyed when u call session_destroy() function or the user close the browser ...

Galavantes wrote:
certain session ID is still valid. IE: they;ve closed their browser, or lost net connection, or whatever.

as I told u above the sessions dont expire when o connection is lost ...

If u want to see if a user is still logged in to your site, there is a work arround, u set a cookie on the user computer with a date, witch time a user click on your site u update that cookie with the new date, u set an interval on how mutch time a user stay on one page; lets say 15 min; if the date in the cookie is older then 15 min u assume the user has looged out or the user close his browser, it could be a more complex or less complex method, this is only a few words to give u an idea ...

Galavantes

Ok but there must be a way to run a check on a certain session ID to see if it still exists?

MarkR

Depending on the session handler, you may be able to hook into the session storage file / database, and query this. But old session files aren't normally removed straight away; the session cleanup routine only runs with a 1/100 probability by default, and only cleans up sessions which are well out of date.

Of course you could create a database table for this purposes, where you insert / update a row for each session which is valid, and put in a timestamp as well (deleting old rows occasionally).

Mark

titoni

You can Setta session's timeout like below code
<IfModule mod_php4.c>
php_value session.gc_maxlifetime "14400"
</IfModule>

To end a session, use the session_destroy function

Below is good tutorial about PHP session
http://www.developerzone.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=143&Itemid=40