Re: Destroying session data

From:	Philip Thompson	Date:	Thu, 23 Dec 2004 21:26:06 +0000
Subject:	Re: Destroying session data
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On Dec 23, 2004, at 2:59 PM, Matt M. wrote:

I have multiple pages on a website that uses sessions ($_SESSION) to store the data. However, I noticed that in the C:\Windows\Temp directory, all the session variables/data files are stored there from previous (and current) sessions.
what version of php are you using?

I'm using 4.3.8

this might be coming into play: http://us4.php.net/session session.gc_maxlifetime integer
    session.gc_maxlifetime specifies the number of seconds after which
data will be seen as 'garbage' and cleaned up.

Okay, lemme see if I understand how it works. Even if it "sees" it as garbage, it will not destroy it until the session has ended? or will destroy when that time is reached? So can I set session.gc_maxlifetime to be a low number (e.g., 10 seconds) and it will still behave appropriately? Currently, it's set to the default - 1440. ~Philip