How long is a session's lifetime?

Anon

Hi,

Does anyone out there know how long the server keeps a record of a session?

For example:

a web site uses sessions, and offers both sign-in and sign-out facilities. When a user signs in, data about them is stored in session variables. When the user signs out, the session is destroyed using "session_destroy()".

However, if the user never clicks on 'sign-out' and simply deletes the cookie from their browser, session_destroy() will never be called, so will the server ever realise that the session is dead and delete all of the information relating to it, or will it remain in a file on the server forever?

I only ask because I've been wondering about this for a while, and I can't seem to find any info about it..

Cheers,
Nick.

van__

Well, depending on how good of genetic stock it's ancestors had
and combined with todays current cost of living and socio-economic stresses as well as regional prosperity and assuming that the individual session is able to prosper in his/her chosen vocation and abstain from more than moderate use of psychotropic substances especially crack cocain,
you can safely assume that the average lifetime in accordance to last years WHO findings to be correctly stated at an average of 180 minutes after the last user click or page refresh.

Anon

hehe, ok - thanks for the info 🙂 I was just a little concerned that these sessions may be leaving behind lots of rubbish from when users didn't bother to sign out.

Best,
Nick

van__

Well, after the session reaches the end of his/her natural life, the corpse generally does need funeral arraingements to be made.

Generally speaking, most cultures dispose of their beloved ones carcass within about 1 half hour of the sessions untimely demise.

Of course there have been rumours of vampire and zombie sessions, but those are mainly folklore spread by the gentiles after witnessing certain phenomena beyond their pithy understanding of the great equalizer sometimes refered to in elite social circles as the Garbage Collector. This is actually a natural occuring event which ensures that all creatures great and small shall be assimilated back into the environment which gave them birth.