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creating sessions time out

Mar 25th, 2008

how can i set limit to my sessions in php so that if a page remains idle for certain time, the user is logged out?

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Re: creating sessions time out

Mar 25th, 2008

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session_start();
setcookie("PHPSESSID",$_COOKIE['PHPSESSID'],time()+1800);

Where 1800 is the time in seconds before the session should expire. PHPSESSID is the default session ID. This way, every time a user loads a page they get their session extended.

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