Posted by Chris Stegeman on 10/21/05 00:08

Hello there,

On my site people have to log in and automatically start a session. An
authorized login grants access to other pages and MySQL data.
However when the user waits to long, the server ends the session, without a
proper logout. The user can't see that he logged out, hits a button and gets
mutiple errors because the database is no longer available or other
problems.
Is there a way to to warn the user a minute before the session is ended.
I know the session time is set in session.gc_maxlifetime in php.ini. So I
can let a timer run along with this time and warn the user, but doesn't the
server returns a signal before the session is ended that I can use to alert
the user or in any case can trigger a proper logout?

thanks, Chris

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