"Ng Hwee Hwee" <hhwee@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:005201c446f7$848fcea0$7a01a8c0@xxxxxxxxxxx > hi.. > > the situation is like this: my clients' $_SESSION gets destroyed even after > only a few seconds of inactivity! so, with my current setting for > gc_maxlifetime (1440), it should be more than enough to have their sessions > registered for the few minutes, right? thus, i deduce that the solution may > not lie in my gc_maxlifetime value?? please correct me if I'm wrong! You're right, the session should at least be active for the specified gc_maxlifetime - no matter if the users click a link or not. So even if the user clicks only once to start the session and then clicks again after 20 minutes the session should still be valid. If it's not I guess there is something wrong on your server because the session should be alive even if the user is not requesting any pages. Do all users have this problem and do you have it yourself? Torsten -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php