Re: Extending session timeouts manually

Chris wrote:

Ryan Fielding wrote:

Ryan Fielding wrote:

Chris wrote:

Ryan Fielding wrote:

I'm using a session to save cart contents within a store, and this session follows the user as they proceed through the checkout. My problem is, if a customer orders say 10 items, they have the option to input 10 different addresses that these items will be delivered to. I've noticed that some sessions are timing out before the user can finish entering in all the details. I thought that maybe a tiny iframe calling a page that used <Meta Http-equiv="Refresh" Content="300"> to refresh the iframe every 5 minutes, but no such luck. Does anyone know of any thing else i can try to stop this from happening?

What's the session expiry time set to? Try setting it manually? See http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.session-cache-expire.php

It's currently set to the default 180 minutes.

What about other session settings? Check a phpinfo page and see what your other settings are.

In regards to this, i would like to keep it at 180 minutes, but only extend it for certain instances where the customer is taking a long time to enter the details.

How are you going to know that? Have a checkbox on the page - 'are you going to take a long time to fill in this form?' ;) (Yeh bad joke :P). Session config is as follows:

session Session Support enabled Registered save handlers files user Directive Local Value Master Value session.auto_start Off Off session.bug_compat_42 Off Off session.bug_compat_warn On On session.cache_expire 180 180 session.cache_limiter nocache nocache session.cookie_domain /no value/ /no value/ session.cookie_lifetime 2592000 2592000 session.cookie_path / / session.cookie_secure Off Off session.entropy_file /no value/ /no value/ session.entropy_length 0 0 session.gc_divisor 1000 1000 session.gc_maxlifetime 14400 1440 session.gc_probability 1 1 session.name PHPSESSID PHPSESSID session.referer_check /no value/ /no value/ session.save_handler files files session.save_path /tmp /tmp session.serialize_handler php php session.use_cookies On On session.use_only_cookies Off Off session.use_trans_sid Off Off i can't see anything in there that would be causing this sort of behaivour. I've also just tested it again and it seems the session is actually losing the majority of its contents before the 180 minute mark, which could explain why it seems to time out.