Session Timeout question

From: Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:52:16 +0000
Subject: Session Timeout question
Groups: php.db 
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What is the best way to set a user timeout on a session? Say if the user steps away from their computer for say 5 min, and they come back to the page they were on, I want when the user clicks something for the session to kick them off and redirect to login saying their session has timed out. I have this code currently: /*Users timout*/ function getIdle(){ global $database; if($this->isGuest()) {
	      if (!isset($_SESSION['timeout_idle'])) {
			    $_SESSION['timeout_idle'] = time() + GUEST_TIMEOUT;
} else {
			    if ($_SESSION['timeout_idle'] < time()) {
			        //destroy session
			        return(true);
			    } else {
			        $_SESSION['timeout_idle'] = time() + GUEST_TIMEOUT;
			        return(false);
			    }
} } else {
	      if (!isset($_SESSION['timeout_idle'])) {
			    $_SESSION['timeout_idle'] = time() + USER_TIMEOUT;
} else {
			    if ($_SESSION['timeout_idle'] < time()) {
			        //destroy session
			        return(true);
			    } else {
			        $_SESSION['timeout_idle'] = time() + USER_TIMEOUT;
			        return(false);
			    }
} } } But it doesn't time anything out.. I could walk away for an hour and come back and go to a link. TIA, Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com

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