session timeout

[ecalbert]

i have a login for watching videos.
I need to set the timeout to be very large like a few hours.

How do I do this?

 

[traingamer]

The default is typically 180 minutes (three hours). Use phpinfo() to see what your system setting is.


Greg
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[ecalbert]

how can i change it to larger?

 

[sleipnir214]

There are two settings that affect sessions.

First is the lifetime of the session cookie. It's set, by default, to "as long as the browser says open", so you should be okay.

For an discussion of how all the other session variable settings in php.ini affect sessions, see faq434-4908



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[ecalbert]

it's on a hosted server -- can I still change the php.ini?

 

[sleipnir214]

No, but you may be able to override settings.

See:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/configuration.changes.php

and

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ini-set.php

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[ecalbert]

there is not a setting I can just put at the top of the page??

i know in asp I would do session.timout=

-there is no equivalent of this in php

 

[cyberspace]

this tutorial should help

http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/77/0.php

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