session.gc_maxlifetime

Hi all

I'm trying to set my sessions to be deleted after 60 seconds of
inactivity (for testing), however they seem to be deleted after 60
seconds regardless of activity.

I have the following in my php.ini file:

session.gc_maxlifetime = 60
session.gc_probability = 100

I have a login check script on every page that prints the current time
to the session, however my session is *always* deleted after 60
seconds, not after 60 inactive seconds.

It is my understanding that session.gc_maxlifetime is the number of
seconds an inactive session is allowed to live...is this correct?

If so why does my session get deleted after 60 seconds even though it's
active?

Thanks for any help!

JA

re: session.gc_maxlifetime

jarret.austin@gmail.com wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi all
>
> I'm trying to set my sessions to be deleted after 60 seconds of
> inactivity (for testing), however they seem to be deleted after 60
> seconds regardless of activity.
>
> I have the following in my php.ini file:
>
> session.gc_maxlifetime = 60
> session.gc_probability = 100
>
> I have a login check script on every page that prints the current time
> to the session, however my session is *always* deleted after 60
> seconds, not after 60 inactive seconds.
>
> It is my understanding that session.gc_maxlifetime is the number of
> seconds an inactive session is allowed to live...is this correct?[/color]

Nope! From my PHP 5 php.ini:
-----
; After this number of seconds, stored data will be seen as 'garbage' and
; cleaned up by the garbage collection process.
session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440
-----
It appears to have nothing to do with (in)activity.

NM

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re: session.gc_maxlifetime

Thanks. I thought this was the case but I've seen different
explanations online. That being said, is there a way in php.ini to
have a session timeout after "x" seconds of *in*-activity?

JA

re: session.gc_maxlifetime

jarret.austin@gmail.com wrote:
[color=blue]
> Thanks. I thought this was the case but I've seen different
> explanations online. That being said, is there a way in php.ini to
> have a session timeout after "x" seconds of *in*-activity?
>
> JA[/color]

nope.

best thing you could do would be to look at each request for a given
session, and see when the last request was (you would have to save a 'last
request time' for each session). if it was more than sixty seconds prior,
you could manually nuke the session yourself.

mark.


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re: session.gc_maxlifetime

<jarret.austin@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1108084828.484105.220670@f14g2000cwb.googlegr oups.com...[color=blue]
> Thanks. I thought this was the case but I've seen different
> explanations online. That being said, is there a way in php.ini to
> have a session timeout after "x" seconds of *in*-activity?
>
> JA
>[/color]

Dude, these guys are totally pulling your legs. Session file garbage
collection is based on the last-modified-time of the session file. The
last-modified-time is updated whenever the session is accessed (regardless
of whether the session variables have changed or not). The catch is that the
session cannot be completely empty.

re: session.gc_maxlifetime

If that's true (and I hope it is) why does my session get deleted after
60 seconds even though the last-modified-time changes?

JA

re: session.gc_maxlifetime

jarret.austin@gmail.com wrote:[color=blue]
> If that's true (and I hope it is) why does my session get deleted[/color]
after[color=blue]
> 60 seconds even though the last-modified-time changes?[/color]

There *was* some issues under Windows (FAT), but that was sorted out
<http://in2.php.net/session#ini.session.gc-maxlifetime> Perhaps you
should be more specific about your OS, PHP versions, etc?

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re: session.gc_maxlifetime

Source codes don't lie:

// mod_files.c, line 219

if (VCWD_STAT(buf, &sbuf) == 0 &&
(now - sbuf.st_mtime) > maxlifetime) {
VCWD_UNLINK(buf);
nrdels++;
}