Re: PHP sessions - user login webpage - preventing autologout due to inactivity

"Dave Smithz" <dave1900@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Gordon Burditt" <gordonb.vjmuh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Not yet having a moment to look into your suggestions, the actual
> behaviour my client complained about was that they were being logged out
> too quickly. Therefore they had circumstances where they typed a whole
> screen of text, pressed a save button and then found they were logged out.
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> They probably would not care if it took a week to log out, but I would
> certainly like be able to extend it to cover there working day (8 hours or
> so) rather then the current 1.5 hours it seems to be.
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> So any advice in this direction is welcome (but of course I do want to
> establish a general understanding for better control).
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> Cheers

Why don't you just have your site save a draft of the text every minute or
so. You could have some javascript that copies out the contents of the form
the user is editing into an identical form in a hidden iframe, then submit
the hidden form back to itself. Hey presto - your draft has been saved, and
the session is used once more.

dave

> Dave
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