Re: session and expiration function

thanks john, hmmm... i suspected as much... i guess the way to do it would be to set a highly improbable garbage collection and long timeout via ini_set. then use a timeout function attached to the session which launches on expiration cheers christian "John Holmes" <holmes072000@charter.net> wrote in message news:002501c26374$e136db20$b402a8c0@mango... > > is it possible to have a function execute when a session expires using > > php4 > > sessions? > > i know how to execute a function if i control the timeout (as > mentioned > > elsewhere in this group) but what about if the session times out > itself > > using the inbuilt garbage collection routine. > > if so, any ideas how? > > I don't think there's a way to do it besides hacking the source code. If > you really have to do this, I'd set your own session.save_path() in your > scripts and then write a script to do the cleanup and function calling > for you. > > ---John Holmes... >