Re: php ini

K <[email protected]> Sat, 11 Mar 2023 07:53:30 -0800 (PST)
Newsgroups comp.lang.php
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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On Wednesday, May 16, 2018 at 3:11:23 PM UTC+2, Tony Mountifield wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> madwomans Dad <[email protected]> wrote: 
> > I'm trying to find out if it's possible to configure session timeout in 
> > some ini file 
> > 
> > $ php -version 
> > PHP 7.1.14 (cli) ... 
> > 
> > 
> > $ cat ./opt/alt/php71/etc/php.ini | grep session 
> > 
> > I can see all sorts of stuff but what I want is something in the ini 
> > file like session.timeout=whatever 
> > 
> > I really don't want to have to do this in code. 
> > 
> > Is there a 'secret' way to do this in the/an/some ini file
> Not specifically, as far as I can tell. 
> 
> First you need to define what you mean by "session timeout". It could 
> easily mean one of two things: 
> 
> 1. The maximum duration of a session. So a session would be destroyed 
> a specified time after it was first created, even if it was in use. 
> 
> 2. The length of time after a session's last use that it will be discarded. 
> So a session would continue to exist as long as it was used again within 
> the timeout period, but would be destroyed if not used again within the 
> timeout. 
> 
> There doesn't appear to be a php.ini setting specifically for either scenario. 
> There are some statistical garbage collection settings for cleaning up old 
> sessions when using a global file-based session store. But they are basically 
> resource management rather than hard lifetime enforcement. 
> 
> Cheers 
> Tony 
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