I'm losing my sessions...

errorCode30

Hi guys,

Can somone please help!

No matter what i try, whenever i leave a browser window, i lose the session.

I can open new tabs, i can go to differnt page on other site, then copy and paste back to the page, and the session is there...

But as soon as i close the browser, the session is gone?

Any help would be great.

i added this to the top:

session_start();
ini_set('session.gc_maxlifetime',30);
ini_set('session.gc_probability',1);
ini_set('session.gc_divisor',1);

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Also, on a second question, how can i keep a session active for 24hrs -- i cannot use cookies on the hosts machine, it has to be on my server.

Thanks for any help.

Regards.

dougal85

because thats when sessions end...

if you to store information that is available after a browser close. you need to use cookies or on the server somehow and make them login each time.

errorCode30

Ah, so sessions are only made to stay in the single browser.

There is no way to have them remain working when someone closes the browser and opens it again.

OK mate, cheers. I'll have to look into some how having cookies. I wanted it all to be server side though really.

Cheers.

NogDog

You need to change the session.cookie_lifetime setting (in addition to the the session.gc_maxlifetime setting). The default value is 0, which means "stay alive until the browser is closed." Set it to the desired number of seconds. You can use the session_set_cookie_params() function if you want to do this on a per script basis. If these setting will be site-wide, then you can put them in a .htaccess file in your web root directory and only have to set them in one place.