Re: Set Logout Time for No Activity

Another possibility is after each page call to rewrite the client's cookie's validity to, say, current time + 1800s: session_start() ; setcookie( session_name(), session_id(), time()+1800, "/" ) ; ob_start() ; // etc. If the user does not call a page for more than 30', the cookie will be destroyed, in effect destroying the session. Ignatius ____________________________________________ ----- Original Message ----- From: John W. Holmes To: 'Allens' ; php-db@lists.php.net Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 1:57 PM Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] Set Logout Time for No Activity > Is there a variable in php.ini that will allow you to log someone out > if there is no activity of 30 minutes or greater from the logged in > user? Thanks in advance. :) No, not really. You can use sessions, for something like this, though. You start a session and look for a variable within it before you proceed with the page. If the user is inactive for a while, the session will be cleaned up and not exist when you go to check it, so you make them log in again. You can control the session garbage collection time in php.ini. ---John Holmes... -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php