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  • Nick
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    php.ini problems

    On my site I have a problem as the hosting company has set the default time
    out to 15 mins and some of the users are busy mums and so have to leave the
    computer for a while to deal with the kids etc. So when they return to the
    computer to carry on working on the site it tells them they are logged out

    I have been told I can put a php.ini file in the directory to over ride this
    setting but I dont know what values I need to put in I would like to set
    the time out to 5hours

    I have been told its easy to do but Im very new to PHP and so have no idea
    what to put

    Thanks

    Nick



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    • Nick
      #2
      Re: php.ini problems

      Sorry for the Dupe Posting


      "Nick" <nick{at]nkrcs[dot]com[dot]auwrote in message
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      On my site I have a problem as the hosting company has set the default
      time
      out to 15 mins and some of the users are busy mums and so have to leave
      the
      computer for a while to deal with the kids etc. So when they return to the
      computer to carry on working on the site it tells them they are logged out
      >
      I have been told I can put a php.ini file in the directory to over ride
      this
      setting but I dont know what values I need to put in I would like to set
      the time out to 5hours
      >
      I have been told its easy to do but Im very new to PHP and so have no idea
      what to put
      >
      Thanks
      >
      Nick
      >
      >
      >

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        • Jerry Stuckle
          #3
          Re: php.ini problems

          Nick wrote:
          On my site I have a problem as the hosting company has set the default time
          out to 15 mins and some of the users are busy mums and so have to leave the
          computer for a while to deal with the kids etc. So when they return to the
          computer to carry on working on the site it tells them they are logged out
          >
          I have been told I can put a php.ini file in the directory to over ride this
          setting but I dont know what values I need to put in I would like to set
          the time out to 5hours
          >
          I have been told its easy to do but Im very new to PHP and so have no idea
          what to put
          >
          Thanks
          >
          Nick
          >
          >
          >
          >
          It's not necessarily as easy as it sounds.

          You can set session.cookie_ lifetime to a longer value (0 means until the
          browser is closed). However, the sessions can still be cleaned up if
          the server's session.gc_maxl ifetime is set to a shorter value and your
          session data is in the same location as other domains (typical). In
          this case you have to also set session.save_pa th to store the data in a
          directory your web server has write access to but is outside of the root
          path of the document. These can be done in a php.ini file in your
          directory, but most people place them in the .htaccess. See the PHP doc
          for more information on how to do it.

          But it's probably easier to just change hosting companies to one which
          will allow a longer session timeout.

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