Auto Logout -- How to set session length?

[TerryK]

I haven't been able to find anything about this through my searches of "session timeout" " session logout" and other related keywords...

 

I was monkeying around with the code for my store tonight while logged in as a customer. At one point, I got buried in the code, and it was probably 10-15 minutes before I went back to refresh the page and check my code changes. Instead of updating the page, I was redirected to the customer login page where I had to sign in again as a customer.

 

Some of my customers start shopping in the morning, and don't finish until hours later. Is there somewhere I can change the code which allows them a longer login session before timing out?

 

Thanks in advance for any help!

 

TerryK

[moonstone]

I am not very sure about this. But, if I am not wrong, the timeout setting should be in catalog/includes/functions/sessions.php.

 

Try searching for the following lines at about lines 13 -16:

 

if (STORE_SESSIONS == 'mysql') {

if (!$SESS_LIFE = get_cfg_var('session.gc_maxlifetime')) {

$SESS_LIFE = 1440;

}

 

Changing the $SESS_LIFE to a larger value should gives you a longer login session.

[Guest]

I've seen customers complain their shopping cart is empty when in fact all thats happening is they are newly logged out and are a guest but dont realize it because they are on the cart contents page with no warning they are actually not logged in.

 

I fixed this by adding code to the catalog/shopping_cart.php page just before the line that displays

HEADING_TITLE. I added:

 

<td class="main"><?php echo tep_customer_greeting_cart(); ?></td>

 

where the above function is very similar to the code of catalog/includes/functions/general.php function tep_customer_greeting().

 

This will say who they are logged in as or if they are a guest, and ask them if they want to log in if the latter is the case.

 

Of course it also helps to beef up the length of a session as well.