Re: $_SESSION v. Cookies

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> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Robert Cummings <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 14:29 -0600, Nathan Nobbe wrote:
>> > On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Robert Cummings <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >         On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 16:03 -0400, tedd wrote:
>> >         > At 12:34 PM -0400 5/7/08, Robert Cummings wrote:
>> >         > >
>> >         > >The exception being when it performs cleanup. Cleanup
>> >         should be
>> >         > >relegated to a cron job.
>> >         >
>> >         > Rob:
>> >         >
>> >         > What clean-up?
>> >
>> >
>> >         All the inactive session files... inactive and garbage
>> >         collection time
>> >         is denoted by the following php.ini settings:
>> >
>> >         session.gc_probability    = 1     ; percentual probability
>> >         that the
>> >                                          ; 'garbage collection'
>> >         process is
>> >                                          ; started
>> >                                          ; on every session
>> >         initialization
>> >         session.gc_maxlifetime    = 1440  ; after this number of
>> >         seconds,
>> >                                          ; stored data will be seen as
>> >                                          ; 'garbage' and cleaned up by
>> >         the
>> >                                          ; gc process
>> >
>> > so where is the setting, using the stock session handler, to relegate
>> > the gc process to a cron job ?
>>
>> session.gc_probability = 0
>>
>
> but wont it still try to run sometimes since that setting determines
> whether
> or not the gc will run *every* time ?  i would imagine if it was for *any*
> time, setting session.gc_probability = 0 would effectively disable the
> stock
> gc.
>

that setting is the chance (in percents) for the stock gc to run at any
request. so if it is set to 0, it does not have a chance ;)
of course it will try but it always decides not to run

greets,
Zoltán Németh

> Then do it yourself in a script called by cron.
>
>
> it would be nice if you could latch into the one they provide out of the
> box
> and just invoke it via cron..
>
> -nathan
>



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