I had a similar question few days ago on one other forum and get an answer that session expiration is defined by session.gc_maxlifetime and 1440 is number of secunds. (24 minutes - you were right tedd ;)) -afan > At 1:36 PM +0200 5/1/06, Martin Zvarík wrote: >>Hi, >> I was looking all over the internet and I >>don't understand when and how does the PHP >>session expirate. >>I suppose that it happens when the user is inactive. >> >>On my website I don't use cookies for session >>and it has standard php.ini configuration: >>session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440 >>session.gc_divisor = 100 >>session.gc_probability = 1 >>session.cache_expire = 180 >> >>So, does this mean, that if the visitor is 180 >>minutes inactive it automatically deletes the >>session ?? >> >>Thanks, >>Martin > > > Martin: > > I'm not sure as to what "session.cache_expire " > means and I know it has a default value of 180 > minutes. However, I've read that a session > typically has a life span of 20 minutes. > > tedd > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > http://sperling.com > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
