Register session as infinity

[aniesh82]

 

 

 

Hello Friends,

 

I need to register a session as infinity. How can I do this? Could someone help me ?

 

I also tried with the following code, but did not work.

 

ini_set("session.gc_maxlifetime","864000");

[aniesh82]

I tried by editing the php.ini

 

I have set 

ini_set("session.gc_maxlifetime","864000"); 

ini_set('session.cookie_lifetime',"864000"); 

in the php script and added one php.ini file in the directory which it executes. But session get expired after some hours.

 

Thanks in advance.

[trq]

Use cookies. Sessions are not made for this.

[aniesh82]

 

I do not get how to use cookies to solve this problem.

 

Could you please explain a bit more?

[ToonMariner]

You cannot have an indefinite session or cookie - you can set the expiry time to a long way into the future but you should NOT use sessions for that - I believe they should be left to expir when the browser closes...

[aniesh82]

 

hello ToonMariner,

 

When we login in PHPFREAKS  can select any the option from select box like one hour, 2 hour, one day etc. Did you note that ?

 

I closed my browser and I returned on the next I saw that  login exists. How it happened?

 

 

[trq]

How it happened?

 

Cookies. if the user selects to be logged in forever, create a cookie that says so. Then, next visit, check for the existence of this cookie, if it exists, log the user in using sessions.

[aniesh82]

 

Thorpe, Thanks for your reply.

 

So it is not possible to do this using sessions?

 

I am not sure but I think that, session id is stored in browser as a cookie, when we register a new session by server to identify the browser.

 

If this happen, how is not possible to store the session id as a cookie exists forever like you says ?

[trq]

If this happen, how is not possible to store the session id as a cookie exists forever like you says ?

 

It may be, but its not practical. That is not the intended pupose of sessions. What is wrong with cookies? That is there intended purpose.

[ToonMariner]

the sessions data would then have to be stored indefinitley on the server - and imagine storing 2000000 cookies that no one is using!!!!!

[aniesh82]

 

 

Thanks for your Quick Response.

[suma237]

hi,

In which application you will be using infinite session.?

 

[cooldude832]

its a poor programing idea because your server would become overwhelemed with stored session IDs because you said to not delete them forever

[corbin]

Let's pretend that you're coding some form of login script.... The suedo-php for this could be as follows:

 

if(session is set) {
show page
}
else {
if(cookie containing username and password is set) {
	if(username and pass are correct) {
			set session
			set cookie (if you want to...)
			exit script
	}
	else {
		unset cookie
		echo wrong pass
	}
}
elseif(POST data containing username and password is set) {
	if(username and pass are correct) {
		set session and cookie
		refresh page
		exit script
	}
	else {
		echo wrong pass
	}
}
}

html form for logging in goes here

 

It could actually be done a little shorter/more efficiently, but in suedo-code, that seemed like the best way.