Question

I don’t know much about joomla. I found this:

JFactory::getSession();

Here I found that there is an expire date, but I can’t make it work.
http://www.techportal.co.za/joomla/joomla-tutorials/304

Could you give an working example?

Just want when a user reopen the browser the data stored in the last session to be available. Also have to say that I’m using an outside domain to login, so in this case I don’t care about internal ways of joomla handling users.

Answer 1

The 4 sections you can see in the documentation you’re using there need to be passed through in an array (called $options in the API)

So you’d need to pass

$time=99; //time in minutes
$options = array(
    "expire" => $time,
);
$session =& JFactory::getSession($options);

Note by default this is handled by a param in the config area of Joomla in 2.5 upwards! This might well also be the case in 1.5 – I don’t have a copy of 1.5 to hand.