user session to expire after an hour
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Last Post: April 26, 2010 (RSS)
Re: [concrete] user session to expire after an hour
By Jason - April 15, 2010
Try this just before you create your session variable:
ini_set('session.gc.maxlifetime',3600);This will set the sessions maximum lifetime to 1 hour (3600 seconds)
Hope this helps.
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Re: [Jason] user session to expire after an hour
By concrete - April 15, 2010
Currently cmsb stores a cookies that keeps users logged in until they log out.
Re: [concrete] user session to expire after an hour
By Jason - April 15, 2010
You can set session.gc_maxlifetime there as well.
Hope this helps.
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Re: [Jason] user session to expire after an hour
By concrete - April 15, 2010
Re: [concrete] user session to expire after an hour
By Jason - April 16, 2010
What it will do is set a maximum lifetime to all sessions and cookies, so it will probably affect automatic logins.
Hope that helps.
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Re: [Jason] user session to expire after an hour
By concrete - April 24, 2010
Re: [concrete] user session to expire after an hour
By Jason - April 26, 2010
php.ini is not part of CMS Builder, but is part of your web server. If you open your CMS Builder and go to your "General Settings" page, down at the bottom is an area called "Server Info". You should see a link there that says "phpinfo".
If you click on that, you'll be brought to a page giving you all the PHP information for your server. You'll see a section called "Loaded Configuration File". This will tell you the path of where your php.ini file is located on the server. This might help point you in the right direction.
Some hosting services don't allow you access to php.ini. If you can't find the file, you can contact your hosting service to either give you access, or perhaps make the change for you.
Hope this helps.
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Re: [concrete] user session to expire after an hour
By Dave - April 26, 2010
The short answer is that this isn't supported by CMSB.
But if you are comfortable editing the code you can try editing cmsAdmin/lib/init.php (make a backup first) and changing this value:
ini_set('session.cookie_lifetime', 60*60*24 ); // cookies are removed after this many seconds of inactiity (set to 0 for session only)
If you change the 24 to a 1 you'll get sessions that expire after 1 hour, or if you replace 60*60*24 with 0 you'll get sessions that expire when the browser is closed.
Note that if/when you upgrade this change will get overwritten, so if you make custom code changes we recommend creating a file called cmsAdmin/CUSTOM_CODE_CHANGES.txt and recording what you changed so it's easy to re-do later after upgrading.
Hope that helps!
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Re: [Dave] user session to expire after an hour
By concrete - April 26, 2010