Hello,
Could anyone tell how to maintain a session (in PHP) so that the session contains are preserved and are accessible even after the browser is restarted.
In general a session expires with the closing of a browser, but I want the session NOT TO BE CLOSED so that the session data's can be accessed the next time the browser is used.
Use session_set_cookie_parameters() to give the session cookie a non-zero lifetime before starting the session, or set session.cookie_lifetime to non-zero.
Session in php (and in most web technologies) work like this :
You store a session id in a cookie on the client computer.
When the client come to your site he send you the session id.
The server find the session datas in a file with the session id and load it.
So closing the browser has not effect on the session, but if the browser empty the cookie when you close it (I don't think any browser do such a thing).
If you wana be sure the user is always logged in, you can store it's user/password in his cookies but it's not really safe.
It's oxymoron.
Session stands for "until browser is closed".
Session is something that expires.
If you don't want it to be expired, you're probably don't want a session at all.
You are probably messing session with cookie or database.
Thank you for all your answers. I readed the faq about sessions again and I realised that I can't do this right.
My solution was to "create a session in the db". I mean I created a table called sessions and keeped there the session's vars. A cookie is storing the session id and a variable is loaded after every page refresh containing the session's vars from the db.
Anyway, thanks for your replies.