Question

We have an internal control panel that all employees in the office are logged into all day, including customer service. I’d like for it to be setup so that it keeps you logged in for 1 hour before your session expires. How can I change this in the PHP.ini? I made a change before I understood would keep the session open until the browser window was closed but it didn’t stick.

Answer 1

There are two different values you can set:

session.gc_maxlifetime specifies the number of seconds after which data will be seen as ‘garbage’ and potentially cleaned up.

and session.cookie_lifetime which is how long the cookie will last.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/session.configuration.php

both values can be set in the php.ini file, but might get overriden in .htaccess files or in your scripts using ini_set.