ending sessions

[surrealillusions]

Is there a way to end a session when the browser is closed? As the session is used across more than 1 page, i cant really kill the session at the end of the page, otherwise it wont be used when the user goes to another page, or revisits that page.

:)

[cameraman]

You might want to check this:

session.cookie_lifetime [php.net] integer
session.cookie_lifetime specifies the lifetime of the cookie in seconds which is sent to the browser. The value 0 means "until the browser is closed." Defaults to 0.

[surrealillusions]

ok, thanks but how do i put use that in php?

:)

[cameraman]

Check to see if it's already 0 with phpinfo(). If it's not, change it in your php.ini (if you have access to it) or set it with set_cookie_params() [php.net] (which was a link on the url I posted). According to the docs, if you have to do the latter you'll have to do it in every script, before calling session_start().

If it's already 0, you're probably already good to go - have you tried closing your browser & reopening?

[surrealillusions]

Looks like it is already 0 in the phpinfo.

But will look into setting it to 0 for future referance just in case i have to write session stuff thats going to be displayed on a different server with it set differently

:)