Posted by Philip Hallstrom on 09/07/05 01:43

On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Mauricio Pellegrini wrote:

> You were right! That was exactly the problem
> after reading your message, I 've verified the value for gc_maxlifetime
> and found that it was set to 1440 secs in other words 24 minutes.
>
> Thank you for that.
>
> But, now I need to come up with something to avoid this behaviour.
>
> The problem is that there's a second php application ruuning on the same
> server and I don't want to change the default for gc_maxlilfetime,


Why not just change it on your pages? The manual says it can get changed
anywhere... so just make a call to ini_set() on your pages and other
scripts will remain unaffected.

?




>
> So I was thinking on implementing some sort of automatic session refresh
> after a short period, let's say every 20 minutes of inactivity.
>
> And of course I should provide the users with a manual way to make
> session end, sort of a logout from the application.( no problem with
> that)
>
> My question is:
>
> Is there a way to set sort of a timer as to invoke an hipothetical
> "refresh_session.php" without reloading the current page on the client?
>
> Thanks
> Mauricio.
>
>
>
> On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 14:20, Kirk.Johnson@zootweb.com wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Mauricio Pellegrini wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, I have this problem , When I start a Session everything seems to
>> be
>>>> ok but sometimes with no reason the session vanishes.
>>>>
>>>> All settings are default , I mean session_cache_expire is 180 min.
>>>> I understand that this setting should make sessions last for at least
>> 3
>>>> hours but in my case it seems not to be true since the real duration
>>>> varies from 20 minutes to an hour
>>
>> I think the parameter you need to look at in php.ini is
>> session.gc_maxlifetime. It sets the session lifetime, not
>> session_cache_expire. The default lifetime is probably 1440 seconds,
>> roughly 20 minutes, so the behavior you are seeing is completely normal -
>> it's all working as it should.
>>
>> Kirk
>
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