Re: [PHP] $_SESSION v. Cookies

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Robert Cummings <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 14:29 -0600, Nathan Nobbe wrote:
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Robert Cummings <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 16:03 -0400, tedd wrote:
> At 12:34 PM -0400 5/7/08, Robert Cummings wrote:
> >
> >The exception being when it performs cleanup. Cleanup
should be
> >relegated to a cron job.
>
> Rob:
>
> What clean-up?


All the inactive session files... inactive and garbage
collection time
is denoted by the following php.ini settings:

session.gc_probability = 1 ; percentual probability
that the
; 'garbage collection'
process is
; started
; on every session
initialization
session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440 ; after this number of
seconds,
; stored data will be seen as
; 'garbage' and cleaned up by
the
; gc process

so where is the setting, using the stock session handler, to relegate
the gc process to a cron job ?

session.gc_probability = 0


but wont it still try to run sometimes since that setting determines
whether
or not the gc will run *every* time ? i would imagine if it was for *any*
time, setting session.gc_probability = 0 would effectively disable the
stock
gc.


that setting is the chance (in percents) for the stock gc to run at any
request. so if it is set to 0, it does not have a chance ;)
of course it will try but it always decides not to run

greets,
Zoltán Németh

Then do it yourself in a script called by cron.


it would be nice if you could latch into the one they provide out of the
box
and just invoke it via cron..

-nathan



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