Hi Andre Why not simply store the login time as a session variable, and log the person out after 15 mins?
Regards, John André NęSs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I find PHP session lacking in one area. In my applications I typically want > to have a long timeout for adminstrators so that they don't have to log in > all the time. A typical value is 2 hours. For users I prefer 15 minutes, > based on the assumption that a user will go in, do his stuff, and leave. For > this to happen I need to have the gc_maxlifetime set to 2 hours, or risk > unpredictable results for the administrators. The problem with this is of > course that garbage collection will run infrequently for the entire system, > even though most of the sessions expire after 15 minutes. It would therefore > be nice to have something like "session contexts", where you could have > different session settings for each context. Is this possible to achieve? > Anyone else who can see the use of this? > > Regards. > André Nęss > > -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
