PHP Session

[dizzy1]

HI,

 

How can I put a 5 minute timer on a session. ive made the session but it i dont know how to put a time on it.

 

session_test('$Username');		
$_SESSION[$Username]=$DBusername

[Benmcfc]

You could record the current time as a session variable, and on every subsequent pageload you could check if that time was within 5 minutes of the current time.

[premiso]

session_cache_expire

 

That would be the function you are after. You will need to place that before the session_start call for it to work.

 

Sorry the above was wrong information.

 

ini_set('session.gc_maxlifetime', 300);
session_start();

 

Where 300 is how long in seconds you want it to live. Place that before the session_start and it should only last as long as you set it to.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Someone probably did that to this person to screw him over - http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,246085.0.html

 

The only thing session garbage collection should be used for is to remove old session data files.

 

If you want a specific time check on your site, store the last access time and check how long ago it was on each page access and take appropriate action.