Comments on: HOWTO: Disable Session Timeout in Symfony

By: Larry Weya

Larry Weya — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:43:18 +0000

http://www.symfony-project.org/installation/1_1/upgrade#Session%20timeout

Set it in factories.yml for symfony 1.1

By: Rajeevr

Rajeevr — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:18:09 +0000

Hi,
I put timeout as 1 in settings.yml
But the session is not clearing!!!
Tel me whats the problem??

By: Colnector

Colnector — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:05:39 +0000

As I've had trouble making this work with Symfony 1.1, here's my small patch. It's for the same initialize() function mentioned here.

public function initialize(sfEventDispatcher $dispatcher, sfStorage $storage, $options = array()) {
$options['timeout'] = 86400; # 1 day – or set to as long as you want

parent::initialize($dispatcher, $storage, $options);
}

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:46:39 +0000

Rob,

there is no difference between PHP and sf session handling. In fact, AFAIK sf uses PHP file based session handler by default.

Independent of the storage, the session system never detects browser close, it always does its gc based on the timestamp of the last request. Each request updates a timestamp of or in the session file/database entry.

But for sure its ok to disable this system if it doesn't work for you (because of times of long activity).

I just wanted to state that there is no difference in principal between sf and PHP session handling!

Sebastian

By: thichquay

thichquay — Mon, 26 May 2008 03:40:31 +0000

I created a myUser.class.php under lib folder but however, I don't think this method is working (settings.yml was set with timeout = false as well). Please help…

THanks

By: thichquay

thichquay — Sun, 25 May 2008 15:36:09 +0000

hello,

how can I reference the new myUser class (I'm using the 1st method)? Also, where should I place this class at?

Thankns

newbie

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By: Edowardo

Edowardo — Thu, 15 May 2008 10:21:46 +0000

Good solution. Just simple it is.
Can implement without security matters ya!

By: Large Lee

Large Lee — Sat, 03 May 2008 03:20:30 +0000

Hi,

Does anyone know how to defeat a webpage from timeing out after a certain amount of time?

Is there a simple piece of software that will periodically conduct some activity at the users end on the page so the time-out perpetually resets itself and the page won't close?

Thanks!