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A "Session" is a term referring to a user's time browsing a web site. It's meant to represent the time between a user's first page view on a particular site, until the time that user is finished at that site. PHP offers us the ability work with "session variables" which are available for the duration of a user's session
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Changing Session Timeout
By default the session timeout is 1440 seconds, which is 24 minutes. One of the most basic examples to change the session timeout is as follows:
// server should keep session data for AT LEAST 1 hour
ini_set('session.gc_maxlifetime', 3600);
// each client should remember their session id for EXACTLY 1 hour
session_set_cookie_params(3600);
session_start();
For more details on PHP settings, check out the course on Basic Error Handling in PHP.
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