Do sessions have an auto time out and if so what is it??

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    As above really.

    I wondered if somebody left there screen for an hour and cookies wasn't set would they have to login again.

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  2. Chemo

    Chemo Peon

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    The default session TTL is 24 minutes...so if there is no activity in that time the sever side session would (*should*) be removed.

    Bobby
     
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  3. liam1412

    liam1412 Active Member

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    Cheers for that mate. Is there any way to access the time out from a script. Ie terminate after 3mins etc as I don't have that kind of access to my php ini file through my host.

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    You could handle the removing of the sessions yourself.

    http://us.php.net/session_save_path

    Or you can try to change it during scripts run time.
    ini_set("session.gc_maxlifetime","");
     
    exodus, Aug 10, 2007 IP