"Boot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Currently session variables are dropped in a shorter time period than I > would like when a user sits with a page open but idle. > > My PHP.INI has session_gc_maxlifetime set to 1440. > > If I want variables kept for two hours, is setting session_gc_maxlifetime > the correct setting to change (to 7200) ? > > > Thanks!
If you cannot edit your php.ini put this line at the top of all your scripts: ini_set('session.gc_maxlifetime', 7200); You can also set this environment variable with a .htaccess file. Search the archives to find out how the exact syntax is. Regards, Torsten Roehr -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php