Re: Destroying session if not being used from past 10 mins.

Thanks alotttttttt....... Is it possible to increase the probability which is by default 1% to 99 % and make sure that session are destroyed after 10 mins by setting session.gc_maxlifetime to 600. Binay ----- Original Message ----- From: "CPT John W. Holmes" <holmes072000@charter.net> To: "Binay" <binay@oliveinternet.com>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 5:08 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Destroying session if not being used from past 10 mins. > From: "Binay" <binay@oliveinternet.com> > > > How can I configure the session to get destroyed, > > if not being used from past 10 mins. > > If you're using the default session handler, the session files are cleaned > up after not being used for 1440 seconds (by default), and the session is > basically destroyed. You can adjust the session.gc_maxlifetime setting in > php.ini to adjust the time. > > This time isn't exact, though. The cleanup process is based upon a > probability that is 1% by default. That means the process has a 1% chance of > being started when there is a request to your site. So the files may be > older than 1440 seconds and just waiting for the garbage collection process > to be initiated. > > If you need it to be exactly 10 minutes of inactivity, the best method is to > just store the time of the last request as a session variable and do the > checking yourself upon each request. If the last request was more than 10 > minutes ago, then handle it accordingly. > > ---John Holmes...