Re: Overriding session length in existing session?

On 03/04/2011 05:37 AM, Marc Guay wrote: > Howdy. Don't sessions expire when the browser closes as a rule? Do > you mean the session cookie? Why not store the cookie, if one exists, > in a $_SESSION variable in your header file and then refer to that in > the rest of your code, rather than the cookie. Then when you want to > destroy the session cookie, you can overwrite it and the existing > session will still flow using the $_SESSION vars until the browser > closes. > > It's early here, I hope that sort of makes sense and that I've at > least sort of understood the problem. I'm setting my session cookies, and my session data on the server to expire X days in the future. That's set globally in my header.php file. When the use logs in it stores their login information in the session and it's good for 7 days. I have an option on the login page "public terminal" that I want to make clear the session on browser close. The problem is that I've already (in header.php) told the session cookie that it's good for 7 days. I was just trying to override that already established session cookie. - Scott