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**dopy** · 07-09-2006, 10:10 PM

Hello,

How can I set session lifetime to 24hours? Or to close webbrowser window.

Goodbye

**mtishetsky** · 07-10-2006, 03:49 AM

RTFM? http://ru.php.net/manual/en/function...kie-params.php

**csingsaas** · 07-10-2006, 10:12 AM

This article might be helpful also:

http://blog.centresource.com/2006/05...-an-adventure/

**mgraphic** · 07-10-2006, 08:31 PM

A session is only good as the lifetime of the session itself, its not designed to be relived after the user has finished thier "session"

**mtishetsky** · 07-11-2006, 05:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mgraphic

A session is only good as the lifetime of the session itself, its not designed to be relived after the user has finished thier "session"

Why? If you set session lifetime to "forever" (10 years will be enough) then user will not have to login every time he visits a site. I'm sure that authorisation systems on most sites are made in such a way.

**mgraphic** · 07-11-2006, 10:35 PM

I'm just saying that sessions should not be confused with cookies. Even though they are somewhat the same, they are different.

**mtishetsky** · 07-12-2006, 01:41 AM

Man, I think you don't understand what is session and what is cookie. Session is tightly tied to cookies since session identifier is passed to server within the cookie. So it is obvious that session lifetime solely depends on cookie lifetime. Also if a user deletes his cookie it becomes impossible to restore his session if using standart mechanism for session handling.