Re: sessions timeout

But my question is, since I don't deal with cookies directly (PHP does that for me), 'cause I only have to deal with sessions, how can I change the cookies produced by PHP? atm I only session_start() and use the $_SESSION[''], so I don't really know which cookie to change, or how to do it. TIA Ps.: I know it doesn't last forever, that's why I've put the _forever_ ;-) On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 23:12, Richard Davey wrote: > Hello André, > > Tuesday, March 9, 2004, 10:53:35 PM, you wrote: > > AVL> I'm using sessions to manage users, by using cookies to store the > AVL> session. > AVL> My question is, how do I make the session last _forever_? > AVL> ATM the session lasts 'till the user closes the browser. > > Ok first of all - you cannot make a cookie last "forever". You can set > its expiry to be a ridiculous date in the future, but that's all - if > the browser removes it during cookie purging, or the user reinstalls > something - it's gone. One of the best solutions is to refresh the > cookie (without their knowledge) each time they come back to the site. > > Anyway, onto the meat of your question - give the cookie an expiry > date well into the future so it persists until the visitor returns. > Look at the help file for details on the attributes you need for > setcookie. > > -- > Best regards, > Richard Davey > http://www.phpcommunity.org/wiki/296.html -- I/O, I/O, It's off to disk I go, A bit or byte to read or write, I/O, I/O, I/O...

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