Question

Can somebody please help me on how to disconnect a user (using sessions) after 5mins regardless of being idle or active.thank you
am coding in php and mysql as the database.

Answer 1

When the user logs on, you could register a session variable for the time, every time a page is loaded, check if 5 minutes has elapsed since logging on.
For example:

<?php
session_start();
if($_SESSION["loggedin"] && ($_SESSION["timer"]<(time()-(5*60)))) {
logout();

}


function login() {
//do login stuff
$_SESSION["timer"]=time();
}

function logout() {
//do logout stuff
}

?>