Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=11982&edit=1
ID: 11982
Updated by: yohg...@php.net
Reported by: arni at linux dot is
Summary: session_expires()
-Status: Analyzed
+Status: Wont fix
Type: Feature/Change Request
Package: Session related
Operating System: Windows2000
PHP Version: 4.0.6
Assigned To: yohgaki
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
Since how expire session is application dependent, make this request as won't
fix.
Previous Comments:
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[2011-11-08 03:25:15] yohgaki at ohgaki dot net
BTW, current session data structure has rather strange data structure to
support
register globals.
We can introduce new and cleaner data structure that can easily fetch session
data directly from session data. i.e. use plain serialize() for session data
serialization.
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[2011-11-08 03:20:25] yohgaki at ohgaki dot net
Basically, session expiration is depend on browser's cookie expiration.
Therefore, when session is expired, session cookie is gone.
We can implement this feature in session module via new session data structure.
If we do, there will be compatibility issues. For instance, PERL or other
languages have PHP session data parser to share session data with PHP. New data
structure will break them.
I usually do this in my PHP script. e.g.
$_SESSION['expire'] = time() + 7200; // somewhere
then
if ($_SESSION['expire'] < time()) ..do something.. // elsewhere
I'm not sure if we should do this in session module.
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[2001-07-09 11:47:08] arni at linux dot is
I have a feature request for the session module in php. This request should be
self-explaining. I would appreciate if a session_expires(int seconds) function
would be implemented. Defining when a session will expire in seconds.
This function should destroy the session if the session is expired. Also, let
the function return 1 if the session is expired, and 0 if it's not expired.
Then it could be used in cases like:
if(session_is_expired()) {
...expired...die
}
else {
...not expired, continue...
}
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