PHP session timeout issue

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I am getting a session timeout all the time.

When ever a user is idle for some time, he has to re-login. I want him to login again only if he closes his browser. I have not used anything to destroy or unset the session, I only do that in the logout page.

I have set my PHP INI file to set all the session variables. You can browse the Session Variable here at the link.

http://www.providentfeed.com/phpinfo.php

Possibly a duplicate of stackoverflow.com/questions/5577106/… — GordonM
– GordonM, Commented Apr 17, 2011 at 10:35
Thanks Gordon for your directions, but I already have set these two parameters(session.cookie_lifetime and session.gc_maxlifetime) to 40 hours. But it is not working. — kakaajee
– kakaajee, Commented Apr 17, 2011 at 13:03

Alex · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-10 10:28:10Z

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you can write the following code in your php file.

// Session timeout value in seconds. Let's say we increase it to 24 hours
ini_set('session.gc_maxlifetime', 24*60*60);

edited Mar 10, 2016 at 10:28

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answered Apr 17, 2011 at 10:33

Naveed Ahmad

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kakaajee Over a year ago

Naveed thank you for your reply. Actually I tried this before in my PHP code, it did not worked. Then I tried it in PHP.ini file. Still the same issue.

JohnP · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-17 10:35:36Z

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That's standard behavior. If you want the user to be logged in indefinitely, you'll need to create a cookie and check for its presence in the login page. And simply log the user in if the cookie exists.

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kakaajee Over a year ago

Actually it is a big application and not using some MVC so that I can do it easily. I think there will be some solution to keep the session for a couple of hours. Thanks

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