Question

I want to be able to keep a PHP session, even after the browser has been closed. I know on this question, they suggested using the session_set_cookie_parameters() parameter, but I am unable to find a working example of this that doesn’t expire and works across all directory on my domain. If someone could help out, it would be amazing.

Answer 1

Session stands for “until browser is closed”.
Session is something that expires.
If you don’t want it to be expired, you’re probably don’t want a session at all. You better read on cookie too. I guess that’s what you need.

But You can use session_set_cookie_parameters() to give the session cookie a non-zero lifetime before starting the session, or set session.cookie_lifetime to non-zero.

Remeber session_set_cookie_params() needs to be called before session_start() for every single page request. Read more

Code:

<?php 

session_set_cookie_params(30 * 60, "/");
session_start();
print_r(session_get_cookie_params());

?>

Output:

Array ( [lifetime] => 1800 [path] => / [domain] => [secure] => )

Explanation:

Sets the cookie to expire after 30 minutes and be available anywhere on the site.