What is the default session time in PHP and how can I
change it?
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Answer / diwakar tiwari
default session time in PHP is 1440 seconds. if we want to
change the session time in php, then we have to change in
php.ini.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 134 Yes | 26 No |
Answer / tarangini
default session time 1440.
we can change it by
$garbaze="14400";
ini_set(session_gc_maxlifetime,$garbaze);
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 81 Yes | 30 No |
Answer / amit beniwal
Default session in php is 1440 second. we can change it through
$sessLimit="14400";
ini_set(session.gc_maxlifetime,$sessLimit);
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 43 Yes | 21 No |
Answer / sunny patel
Default session time is 1440 seconds,but we can change it
through ini_set() method.
$intTime=152;
ini_set("session.gc_maxlifetime",$intTime);
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 40 Yes | 18 No |
Answer / kuldeep verma
it is true that by default time of session 1440 sec. and we
can change in php.ini....
it is also depend on brower. when closing the brower then
session lost. session data will be deleted after session
timeout.if connection lost. And recreate the connection then
it session continue.......
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 28 Yes | 20 No |
Answer / ashutosh kumar
how can make a login in such way that if user enter 3 times
incorrect user & password then login should disappeared for
24 hrs at that system in php?
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 21 Yes | 16 No |
Answer / archana
1440. can change it as specified above. bt i have a doubt,
should we need to change 'session.cookie_lifetime' to the
value same as the 'session.gc_maxlifetime' value??
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 5 Yes | 1 No |
Answer / ketan kamdar
default session time in PHP is 1440 seconds, and we can
change using following way.
1) we can change in php.ini
2) ini_set(session_gc_maxlifetime, 1200);
3) using .htaccess:
php_value session.gc_maxlifetime 1200
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 3 Yes | 1 No |
Answer / archana
ini_set('session.gc_maxlifetime', 14400);
ini_set('session.gc_probability', 1);
ini_set('session.gc_divisor', 100);
add above codes in index.php. it will work.
changing php.ini value is not a good way.it will not work.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 4 Yes | 3 No |
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