Posted by gosha bine on 08/17/07 00:42

laredotornado@zipmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When a user logs into our site, we create a session variable to denote
> the session is active and another to denote who is logged in. Once
> the user closes the browser and re-opens it, the session is destroyed
> and the variables are gone.
>
> How can I keep the session alive for 24 hours even if the user closes
> and re-opens the browser?
>
> I'm using PHP 4.4.4. Thanks, - Dave
>

The whole purpose of sessions is to keep short-term data until the
"connection" is closed. If you need persistence, create a normal,
long-term cookie via setcookie() and read it from the $_COOKIES array.

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gosha bine

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