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Hi,

Am new to php... i created login form with session... I wish to do that if user didnt do anything in that form for 5 min means it should go to login page once again...

<?php

session_start();

if(session_is_registered('email'))
{
echo 'Login successful';

}
else
{
header("location:main.php");
}

?>

this is my session creation coding.. wat i have to do after this to achieve above said needs.....

Anybody help me to do this...

Thanks,

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Member #: 11085

I would suggest you use cookies instead, as they have a life parameter.

What you want to do is, I believe, possible with sessions, but I don't recall how to set a timeout on them (if I ever knew).

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there’s a timeout for sessions, but if you’re on shared hosting you probably don’t have access to change it. what i do is store in the session the last time a page was loaded, with something like this:

$_SESSION['lastload'] = time();

then if you want sessions to only be good for 5 minutes since the last page load, that’s 300 seconds, so also check this when you check if there’s a valid login session:

if(time() - $_SESSION['lastload'] > 300)
// destroy session and go to the login page

if you want to automatically redirect the user to the login page after 5 minutes instead of waiting for them to request a different page (or submit your form), you can use either javascript or the refresh header. i don’t recommend doing that sort of thing though as it is very annoying to users if a page they had open is no longer open and they didn’t do anything to make that happen.

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I updated my code as u said but session has not get destroyed.. I wish it to destroy and should automatically redirect to another page after 5 min...

It will be very helpful if anybody give idea to do like this.....

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Member #: 11085

Ah, you want it to automatically redirect on timeout.

In that case, you will need some javascript which checks that cookie from time to time to see if it has expired and, if so, redirects.