Hello and greetings,

I have an application I am working on and I have a question about session timeout and its relationship to the cookie that is set when the member logs into their account. The time out code drops the session and logs a timestamp in the database to indicate when the user was last logged in. That's all fine. The expectation is that if the member comes back after the time out, then they would be required to login again but the login code does a check for an active cookie and not a session and allows the user to access the site apparently creating a new session.

I hope this explanation is clear enough for someone to give me some ideas about how to go about solving this. As far as I can see, the session timeout code is only looking at a time stamp in the database to drop the session. How do I get it to reset the cookie at the same time. I was thinking that add a conditional to test for an active cookie on the login but that doesn't cover all the bases like if the member just went to their CP or some other feature directly. Most of the pages only require an active cookie for authorization.

Any Ideas greatly appreciated.

thanks, mikesz
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