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July 11th, 2002, 11:37 AM

beetle18

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Session Timeouts

Just looking for the best way to handle session timeouts with php.

Note: I'm using the cookieless session method:

PHP Code:


		
			
 $mysession = array();

session_start();

session_register('mysession');

And appending the SID to each URL.

PHP Code:


		
			
 header("Location:doc.php".SID);

Thanks!

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July 11th, 2002, 06:50 PM

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are you trying to make it so it never times out?

July 12th, 2002, 12:14 AM

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Not really. I'm new to PHP sessions though (and PHP itself). I just got sessions working on a little test web-app I'm making (using the method above). Do PHP sessions auto timeout? Or do I need to set it? I will need to be able to force timeout an idle session.

Also, my boss is concerned with security. Have I chosen an appropriate method for session handling to satisfy his concern?

thanks

July 12th, 2002, 01:13 AM

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ahh, session timeouts are up to the server and its settings, usally its around about 20mins. if you want to force a timeout, use the session_destroy() function.

If you want to make something really secure, then what i suggest is that you use a database to store the session Id, IP address, username, password, etc, then make a function on each page to make sure that the session id and the ip address is correct, also you could store the name in the database, so that if you want their name or something, all you have to do is pull it out of the database WHERE sid=$sid and ip=$ip

thats the basic idea, theirs a few ways to go about making a secure login system

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