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How to change the session timeout in PHP

Session timeout is a notion that has to be implemented in code if you want strict guarantees; that's the only way you can be absolutely certain that no session ever will survive after X minutes of inactivity.

If relaxing this requirement a little is acceptable and you are fine with placing a lower bound instead of a strict limit to the duration, you can do so easily and without writing custom logic.

Convenience in relaxed environments: how and why

If your sessions are implemented with cookies (which they probably are), and if the clients are not malicious, you can set an upper bound on the session duration by tweaking certain parameters. If you are using PHP's default session handling with cookies, setting session.gc_maxlifetime along with session_set_cookie_params should work for you like this:


// server should keep session data for AT LEAST 1 hour 
ini_set('session.gc_maxlifetime', 3600); 

  // each client should remember their session id for EXACTLY 1 hour
session_set_cookie_params(3600); 

 session_start(); // ready to go!


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