Re: Assigning PHP Session ID's as cookie with a time set to it?

Read php.ini Also read http://php.net/session -- WARNING richard@zend.com address is an endangered species -- Use ceo@l-i-e.com Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm Volunteer a little time: http://chatmusic.com/volunteer.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: Smileyq <smileyq0@mindspring.com> Newsgroups: php.general To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 12:11 AM Subject: Assigning PHP Session ID's as cookie with a time set to it? > Hello all, > While everything seems to be working fine in my pages I would really like > to learn to how set up sessions id's a different way other than at the > begining of each session. Right now it assigns a session ID per session > with the cookie value of PHPSESSID. Is there a way I can set the value > of the cookie to say ID or SID and give it a time for expiration so that > I can authenticate against session id's and uses user preferences even > when their browsers are closed. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > Thanks guys.. >