Re: Multiple sessions open at same time, is it possible?

Stut a écrit :

On 2 Mar 2008, at 15:28, Richard wrote:

Stut a écrit :

On 2 Mar 2008, at 14:49, Richard wrote:

I would there for need to have two seperate sessions one for the cart, and one for the members area. And sometimes I will need to have them both open. Is this possible ? I've searched google but not found anything interesting, except session_name, but I still don't know how to open two sessions or close one session but not the other, or open a variable in a specific session ...

Just use one session. Put the data for each session into a separate array... $_SESSION['members'] = array('lots', 'of', 'data'); $_SESSION['cart'] = array('lots', 'of', 'money-making', 'crap'); To "disconnect" the user from one or other simply unset that variable... unset($_SESSION['members']); unset($_SESSION['cart']); KISS.

However, is there a way to limit the session stay alive time for just one variable ? If for example, if a user has not done anything in his members area for more than 30 minutes I would like to be able to reset his password, but I do not want to reset the cart. Do I have to program this seperatly in PHP (IE set a session varibale $_SESSION['last_time'] = time(); and on each page loads : if ( time() - $_SESSION[last_time] > 1800) { $_SESSION['password'] = array();

else {    $_SESSION['last_time'] = time()

} ... Or is there a better way to do this?

There is no built-in mechanism for this so you need to implement your own as above. Personally I would store it as an expiry time rather than the current time, but whatever floats ya boat. -Stut Sorry, I only know how to use current time, just for my personal interest, how would you use expiry time ? I've looked around a bit and can't work out how you would do this without using the current time...