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Amorphous
Amorphous

Reputation: 772

Keep CakePHP Session after browser is closed

How to keep CakePHP 1.3 session after browser is closed?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1591

Answers (4)

Ramin Rezazadeh
Ramin Rezazadeh

Reputation: 336

Cookie is not destroyed when browser is closed.

Upvotes: 0

sholsinger
sholsinger

Reputation: 3088

Seems there are ways to increase the time for the session to live on through an overridden configuration value. (At the PHP level -- via CakePHP Manual). Using the code below you could change 0 to the number of seconds you'd like the session to live on for.

// Cookie is now destroyed when browser is closed, doesn't
// persist for days as it does by default for security
// low and medium
ini_set('session.cookie_lifetime', 0);

Example for 2 weeks:

ini_set('session.cookie_lifetime', 60 * 60 * 24 * 14);

The above code snippet would be written to a configuration file that you create in app/config. To get CakePHP to read that file on initialization add the following to app/config/core.php

Configure::write('Session.save','my_session');

Where my_session is the name of your configuration file.

Upvotes: 2

Iiridayn
Iiridayn

Reputation: 1821

Set $this->Session->cookieLifeTime = $timeToLive;, where $timeToLive is the length in seconds you would like the session to last. This is the total length, so if the browser window closes it will not be deleted, but note that it is not measured from the time the browser closed.

Upvotes: 1

Skaty
Skaty

Reputation: 467

You would have to transform it into a cookie, as sessions are automatically removed when the browser is closed. See this.

Upvotes: 1

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