Re: Sessions

Randy Johnson [programmer@jennybug.com] wrote: > Hello, > > I was going to use sessions to save a logged in variable so if the user > logged in with a username and password I checked for the session variable > and if it existed then I could continue. > > Is there a way for the loggedin session variable to automatically be > destroyed after 5 minutes for example? If not what would be another way I > could implement the above. Look at your php.ini configuration - specifically session.gc_probability session.gc_maxlifetime they will help you manage sessions and give a lifetime to each session. You can also use a scheduled(cron on *nix) job to remove sessions older than ??? minutes. HTH. -- Hardy Merrill Mission Critical Linux, Inc. http://www.missioncriticallinux.com > > > thanks, > > Randy > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net