Posted by "Mark Rees" on 09/07/05 11:27

Dan Rossi" <php@electroteque.org> wrote in message
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> client cookie expires hence no more session ...
>
> On 07/09/2005, at 1:57 AM, Jordan Miller wrote:
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> > Hi Dan,
> >
> > Couldn't you store an expiration time directly in the $_SESSION
> > variable, rather than relying on cookie expiration (if I understand
> > your question correctly)? Each time a page is loaded, update the
> > expiration time in this variable to +24hr from the current time (all
> > times relative to the server's time). Then, it shouldn't matter from
> > which time zone the user is browsing.


Read what he said again. Instead of expiring the session itself, store the
time of session expiry in the session (with a longer expiry time than 1 day)
and check that.

When you say a day, do you mean 24 hours or a calendar day? Are you trying
to say:

"Today is Tuesday, so expire this session at midnight on Tuesday?"

If that's what you need to do, you need to use a client-side solution -
after all, only the client knows what time it is where the client is! Be
prepared for people who have their time zone set incorrectly.

> >
> > Jordan
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sep 6, 2005, at 10:37 AM, Dan Rossi wrote:
> >
> >
> >> hi there I have run into problems with sessions , cookies and expiryt
> >> times with different time zones. Ie our server is in the States
> >> however I am browsing from Koala land downunder. I have been trying
> >> to get the session to expire in a day, however for ppl in the states
> >> this is ok, but for me its already expired so i have been
> >> experiencing issues. How do i solve this ?
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