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Sep 10.2006

Is it possible to do a secure area without any use of session stuff?
What i fear about sessions is that it makes use of cookies which is not ideal if i am going to access it on a public system.

edit : it does not have to use a BD as it is going to be a single user thing.

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@bokehSep 10.2006 — To recognise a user you need them to send a token with every request. That token can be a cookie, query string or form data.
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@Leo_01authorSep 10.2006 — I decided to use sessions so how do i make the session expire after some time?

i know that i can set sessions to expire in the php.ini file which i won't have access to.

is there a way to overcome it in the script itself?
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@bokehSep 10.2006 — is there a way to overcome it in the script itself?[/QUOTE][code=php]ini_set()[/code]
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@NogDogSep 10.2006 — [url=http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.session-set-cookie-params.php]session_set_cookie_params[/url] can be used to control the lifetime of the session cookies. It would need to appear on each controlled page before the session_start() command. (This would be another good reason to put all the session/login stuff into a single file which can be require()'d at the start of each page's file.)
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