PHP method to modify the survival storage time of SESSION

This article mainly introduces the method of modifying the survival storage time of SESSION in PHP. Interested friends can refer to it. I hope it will be helpful to everyone.

How to modify the lifetime of SESSION

Let’s manually set the lifetime of Session:

＜?php
session_start(); 
// 保存一天 
$lifeTime = 24 * 3600; 
setcookie(session_name(), session_id(), time() + $lifeTime, "/"); 
?＞

In fact, Session also provides a function session_set_cookie_params(); to set the lifetime of Session. This function must be called before the session_start() function is called:

＜?php 
// 保存一天 
$lifeTime = 24 * 3600; 
session_set_cookie_params($lifeTime); 
session_start();
$_SESSION["admin"] = true; 
?＞

If the client uses IE 6.0, the session_set_cookie_params(); function will have some problems setting cookies, so we still call the setcookie function manually to create cookies.

Session expiration time setting in php

Many people on the Internet have given the answer: modify session.gc_maxlifetime in the php configuration file. If you want to know more about the session recycling mechanism, continue reading. (This article's environment is php5.2)

Overview: Every PHP request has a 1/100 probability (default value) of triggering "session recycling". If "session recycling" occurs, the /tmp/sess_* files will be checked. If the last modification time exceeds 1440 seconds (the value of gc_maxlifetime), they will be deleted, which means that these sessions have expired.

1. How does session exist on the server side (usually Apache with PHP module)?

By default, php will save the session in the /tmp directory, and the file name will be like this: sess_01aab840166fd1dc253e3b4a3f0b8381. Each file corresponds to a session.

more /tmp/sess_01aab840166fd1dc253e3b4a3f0b8381

username|s:9:”jiangfeng”;admin|s:1:”0″;

# Variable name | Type: Length: Value

Deleting the session file here means that the corresponding session is invalid.

2. How does session exist on the client side (usually the browser)?

session On the browser side, you only need to save the session ID (the unique ID generated by the server side). There are two ways to save it: in cookies and in URLs. If the session ID is saved in the cookie, you can see that there is a PHPSESID variable in the browser's cookie. If it is passed by URL, you can see the URL in the form:
index.php?PHPSESID=01aab840166fd1dc253e3b4a3f0b8381. (On the server side, use session.use_cookies to control which method is used)

3. On the server side, how does PHP determine whether the session file has expired?

If the "last modification time" to "now" exceeds gc_maxlifetime (default is 1440) seconds, this session file is considered expired. When the next session is recycled, if this file If it still has not been changed, the session file will be deleted (the session will expire).

Simply put, if I log in to a website and there is no operation within 1440 seconds (default value), then the corresponding session is considered to have expired.

So, modifying the gc_maxlifetime variable in the php.ini file can extend the session expiration time: (for example, we modify the expiration time to 86400 seconds)

session.gc_maxlifetime = 86400

Then, just restart your web service (usually apache).

Note: PHP5 uses a recycling mechanism when session expires. The time set here is 86400 seconds. If the session has not been modified within 86400 seconds, it will not be deleted until the next "recycling".

3. When does session "recycling" occur?

By default, for every PHP request, there will be a 1/100 probability of recycling, so it may be simply understood as "one recycling occurs for every 100 PHP requests." This probability is controlled by the following parameters

#概率是gc_probability/gc_pisor
session.gc_probability = 1
session.gc_pisor = 100

Note 1: Assume that in this case gc_maxlifetime=120, if a session file was last modified 120 seconds ago , then this session is still valid until the next recycling (1/100 probability) occurs.

Note 2: If your session uses session.save_path to save the session elsewhere, the session recycling mechanism may not automatically process expired session files. At this time, you need to delete expired sessions manually (or crontab) regularly: cd /path/to/sessions; find -cmin 24 | xargs rm

4. Some special situations

Because the recycling mechanism will check the "last modification time" of the file, so if a session is active, but the content of the session has not changed, then the corresponding session file has not changed, and the recycling mechanism will consider this A session that has not been active for a long time will be deleted. This is something we don’t want to see. We can solve this problem by adding the following simple code:

<?php
if(!isset($_SESSION[&#39;last_access&#39;])||(time()-$_SESSION[&#39;last_access&#39;])>60)
 $_SESSION[&#39;last_access&#39;] = time();
?>

The code will try to modify it every 60 seconds. session.

Summary: If you want to modify the session expiration time, just modify the variable gc_maxlifetime. PHP5's session uses a passive recycling mechanism (garbage collection). Expired session files will not disappear by themselves, but expired sessions will be processed by triggering "recycling".

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