Stop session from expiring when browser closes

Question

It seems to be that my PHP session is expiring/deleting when the browser is closed.

Is there a way I can prevent this to happen ? Is it only a PHP setting or is there a browser say in this as well ?

Answer 1

You need:

• Change session.cookie_lifetime value
• Change session.gc_maxlifetime value so that it should not be lesser than cookie life time value. Otherwise your session cookie will point to invalid session storage

However, if you want your session to persist after browser was closed, it seems that it's not "session" by definition. I.e. technically, you can do that - but logically that seems to be architecture smell.

Answer 2

That is the behaviour of a session . If you don't want that to happen make use of Cookies.