Re: session duration

"Richard Lynch" <rich@phpbootcamp.com> wrote in message news:20020702092207.GERZ903.sccrmhc03.attbi.com@[192.168.1.103]... > >Is there a way to programatically (inside a session) change session duration > >for the current session only? (using cookie-based sessions) ? > > Wild Guess: > > What if you use the PHP functions to alter the php.ini value for session > time out in that script before you call session_start()?... maybe, but that would change the duration for ALL follwing sessions...? > PHP is just sending Cookies with the session ID and a time-frame for their not just. There is the matter of session variables that are serialized into files on the filesystem, and garbage collected when sessions expire... > This is just *SOOO* wrong to do, but it may let you limp by until you come > up with a better answer... probably not :) I am very surprised that such capability is missing from php! -- -- Ashes to ashes, DOS to DOS ivoras @ fer.hr