[SOLVED] $_SESSIONS

[TGWSE_GY]

Okay so my login system uses PHP $_SESSION and it works fine for the most part except when a user has been away from the site say for 5 hours and comes back they are denied access and we have to delete them from the active_users tbl in the DB to allow them to log in? Is there a way to make $_SESSION's stay active for X-Amount of time and then kick off a script to log the uset off of the site.

 

Thanks

 

[PFMaBiSmAd]

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,255479.msg1201442.html#msg1201442

[justAnoob]

session_set_cookie_params('900', '/', 'http://www.yoursite.com');  //15 minutes i think

 

 

// keeps the user logged in until the browser closes  time limit , path, domain

 

I'm pretty sure the time limit is in seconds.

[gevans]

http://www.captain.at/howto-php-sessions.php

 

Have a look at that article.

 

It has info about changing the time your sessions stays alive for in an open browser.

 

You're active_user table should not rely on a user logging out to remove a user.

[pneudralics]

Okay so my login system uses PHP $_SESSION and it works fine for the most part except when a user has been away from the site say for 5 hours and comes back they are denied access and we have to delete them from the active_users tbl in the DB to allow them to log in? Is there a way to make $_SESSION's stay active for X-Amount of time and then kick off a script to log the uset off of the site.

 

Thanks

 

 

I think you have to use cookies if you want users to be able to come back to the site. I think once the browser is closed the session dies.

[TGWSE_GY]

Thanks guys that helps a lot