before my problem was that my sessions were being terminated spontaneously. it looks 
like i've managed to fix that problem - so far i haven't been randomly logged off my 
application. the problem is, according to my php.ini settings, my session should have 
been terminated after 2 hours, it's been almost 5 hours now... 

my php.ini: 
<snip> 
; Lifetime in seconds of cookie or, if 0, until browser is restarted. 
session.cookie_lifetime =0 
; Percentual probability that the 'garbage collection' process is started 
; on every session initialization. 
session.gc_probability =100 
; After this number of seconds, stored data will be seen as 'garbage' and 
; cleaned up by the garbage collection process. 
session.gc_maxlifetime =7200 
</snip> 

after making the above changes in my php.ini, it looks like the javascript timer i 
have in the headers of my authenticated pages does not work anymore. this javascript 
is supposed to popup a warning message at 18 minutes of inactivity, and at 20 minutes, 
redirect the user to the logout page, which calls session_destroy(). 

the js looks like: 
<snip> 
<script language="JavaScript"> 
<!-- 
function timeout_2MinuteAlert() 
{if(confirm('Warning: You are about to time out. As a security measure, we log you out 
after 20 minutes of inactivity. You have been inactive for 18 minutes. Click "Ok" 
within the next 2 minutes to continue with your application, otherwise you will be 
logged out. If you are logged out, you will need to log in again to continue your 
session.')) 
{ 
history.go(0) 
} 
} 
function timeout_FinalAlert() 
{ 
if(confirm('Warning: You have timed out. As a security measure, you have been logged 
out after 20 minutes of inactivity. Click "Ok" again to return to log in again to 
continue your session.')) 
{ 
history.go(0) 
} 
} 
setTimeout('timeout_2MinuteAlert()', 1080000); // = 18 minutes 
setTimeout('timeout_FinalAlert()', 1212000); // = 20 minutes 
//--> 
</snip> 

what happens is that the javascript gets to the 18 minute warning, but never gets to 
the 20 minute warning, the user is not redirected to the logout page. ideally, i would 
like to have this work. i would like the user to be able to click around on the site 
without their session expiring indefinitely, but at 18 minutes of inactivity, have 
this javascript pop up a warning message, and at 20 mins of inactivity have them be 
automatically redirected to the logout page and their session destroyed. 

what am i doing wrong?


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