Normally a php session expires when the user closes the browser. Is is possible to create a session in php that never expires, doesn’t matter how many times user closes and restart the browser?
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Normally a php session expires when the user closes the browser. Is is possible to create a session in php that never expires, doesn’t matter how many times user closes and restart the browser?
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Not strictly endless, but you can set the cookie lifetime to two years or so which comes pretty close:
session.cookie-lifetimeini settingsession_set_cookie_params()Docs function to set them programmatically.The session cookie won’t be deleted then if the user closes the browser.
Take care that your session data store keeps the data as well that long. This is important. And keep in mind that you need to store all user’s data for this large time-span, so you should have enough space available.
This does not work at all if the user disables cookies in her or his browser.