Timing out!

Hi,

I am having an issue with the CMS ...

While you are making changes it seems to timeout after a short amount of time.
Then your changes are lost?

How to fix?

I believe I found some info, could it be the php.ini file I have to fix?

What exactly are you doing that is causing the timeout? Uploading an image? You can try adding set_time_limit(0) to the top of the page that is timing out. More info at set_time_limit.

-justin

I was inside the CMS, updating content. I went to hit save and as soon as I hit save it went back into the login screen and I lost my changes.

This web site is for a client and she said the same thing happens are her end too.
She loses her changes after a 6 minutes (I timed it). I am looking to increase the time out period, if possible.

Thanks for your help on this!!!

This might be quite late for a reply. But I have recently experienced the same issue as the server session times out prematurely.

I think I have solved this by adding this piece of code to the top of all the Admin PHP pages.

<?php
$time_set = 2*60*60; // 2hrs
session_start();
?>

This give a 2 hour session before it times out and renews on any activity!

I hope this helps even though it is waaaayyy late!

Cheers,
Martin

Hmm, I don't think this has worked.

So I am going to ask the web assist guys, how do you extend the default login session length for power cms?

Thanks,
Martin

session timeout is controlled by a few settings in the php.ini file.

See the following thread on the webmasterworld.com forums for details:
12812.htm

Hi Jason,

Thanks for getting back to me on this one. However, the php.ini file is not something I have access to on the server.

How do you override the settings and create your own session length?

I thought the code I posted earlier was what I needed but when I was kicked out after less than 30 minutes, I realized the session length was not being set.

Thanks,
Martin

you should be able to change the setting using ini_set. don't forget to include the set time limit function as Justin suggested also:

<?php

set_time_limit(0)

ini_set('session.cookie_lifetime',0);

ini_set('session.gc_maxlifetime',1440);

?>

Hi Jason,

Thanks for the info on this. Would the code need to go at the the beginning of just the log-in page (where the session starts) or would it need to go in all pages that reference the cookie? (It seems that the standard php session gc_maxlifetime is 24 minutes (1440)]