On 5/4/07 9:23 AM, "Chris Shiflett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
>> Our client wants sessions to time out after six hours of
>> inactivity, and I'm wondering if there's an easy way to do
>> that by configuring PHP.
>
> Yes, but keep in mind that session.gc_maxlifetime indicates a maximum,
> not a minimum. PHP isn't going to check on every request to see whether
> it should clean up stale sessions; there's some probability involved.
> However, you can change that, too. :-)
>
>> $now=time();
>> if(isset($_SESSION["timestamp"])) {
>> ... dump session if now-timestamp > limit ...
>> }
>> $_SESSION["timestamp"]=$now;
>
> Seems like a fine way to do it to me.
>
> Chris
Why not kill the GC function and add a cron job instead? More predictable,
less overhead.
Cliff
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