RE: [PHP] Sessions Timing Out Too Often

> I'm finding that my sessions seem to be timing out fairly quickly. For > example, in a little forum I wrote with PHP, people are telling me that if > they type a long message and click Submit, they are taken to the Login > page > because their session obviously timed out, and they loose their posts in > the > forum. I do have a "remember me" feature that uses a cookie, but, not all > visitors are using it, and they are the ones experiencing this problem. > > Is there a way to extend session time, and is that the best way to reduce > this problem from happening to most members? You can change the session.gc_maxlifetime in php.ini to a larger value. That is the number of seconds after which inactive session files will be seen as garbage. ---John W. Holmes... PHP Architect - A monthly magazine for PHP Professionals. Get your copy today. http://www.phparch.com/