Actually garbage cleanup can be controlled by writing your session handler functions. You can almost guarantee that noone else will step on your session (with the possible session of the user who hopes to benefit from this, by using a unique session id name, its in the manual under something like set session handlers. HTH Warren Vail > -----Original Message----- > From: VamVan [mailto:vamseevan@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 5:11 PM > To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Sessions > > Hello People, > > I wanted to have your assistance in deciding few things here, > basically I want to auto populate a registration form for people > visiting second time or so on. > > I have already started a session,I know that session is a cookie so is > it better to rely upon the session cookie for auto populating or > create another cookie on client side. > > If i am not mistaken ini_set('session.gc_maxlifetime', 3600); > increases the time session cookie expiration time to 1 hr right. > > Please give me ur suggestions on this. if some one has a working code > can you please share? > > Thanks, > V > > -- > 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