Posted by Andy Hassall on 11/12/05 14:36

On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 12:07:27 +0100, somaboy mx <nosuch@fakemail.fk> wrote:

>I need people to be able to complete long text blocks in my cms before
>their session times out. From the php documentation I gather that ini
>directive session.gc_maxlifetime would be the one to adjust here.
>
>I am on shared hosting, so I can't change the php_ini settings directly.
>If I use ini_set, should I do that on every page in my cms, or would it
>suffice to do it on the login page? Or could I do it in a .htaccess file
>(which my host permits)?

It's got to be done throughout the site, setting it on the login page isn't
enough. .htaccess is a convenient place to do it. ini_set would work if you
have a central inclue file that's included from all the other pages.

Just increasing the session timeouts in .htaccess on shared hosting may not
work as expected - you probably need to set a separate session directory as
well.

See:
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.lang.php/browse_thread/thread/c0ac7ba6ff223a82/aaeaa0acb60fb33c
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