Cookie based session management Q

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2002


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texte = Hi,I am trying to build a cookie based session management system for my site. Basically I want to 'remember' the users and to time out their session after a given amount of time.Currently I have something which lets me set a sessionID cookie as well as a sessionExpire cookie. If the sessionExpire cookie doesn't exist then I create a new sessionID.Eventually I will also add the memberID and a couple other cookies for those users that are actually logged in. The current code would be added as an include at the top of each page of the site to track sessions.Using session cookies will let me report on user sessions with my log analyzing software as well.I do have a couple of questions that I hope someone can help on. Currently the only way I could get the expire time to seem to work in the [setcookie] was to use time math to add 5 hours, yet when I look at my cookies they have a proper expire time. I really don't know why that is working properly based on my code. I would like to expire the sessionID cookie as well this same way as it will change after it expires.To store additional info, would you suggest putting that in a sessions.db or just have more cookies? I am only thinking of a couple of things like memberID, possibly email address and their login info (encrypted of course) .Thanks--- begin code --- [math show=f]timeout=60[/math] [math show=f]exp=[math]{[date]}[/math].[format .5d][Math]{[time]}+[timeout][/Math][/format][/math] [math show=f]now=[math]{[date]}[/math].[format .5d][Math]{[time]}[/Math][/format][/math] [math show=f]raw_dif=[math][format 5f][math][exp]-[now][/math][/format]*100000[/math][/math] ([raw_dif])
[text]sidID=[GETCOOKIE name=sessionID][/text]

[math show=f]sidExpire=[GETCOOKIE name=sessionExpire][/math]

[showif [sidID]=] sidID is blank [Setcookie name=sessionID&value=[cart]&expires=[format days_to_date %A, %d-%b-%Y][math]{[date]}+7[/math][/format] [math time]{[time]}+{05:00:00}[/math] GMT&path=/&domain=.bear.net] [Setcookie name=sessionExpire&value=[math]{[date]}[/math].[format .5d][Math]{[time]}+[timeout][/Math][/format]&expires=[format days_to_date %A, %d-%b-%Y][math]{[date]}+7[/math][/format] [math time]{[time]}+{05:00:00} [/math] GMT&path=/&domain=.bear.net] [/showif][showif [raw][sidExpire][/raw]=[sidExpire]] [Setcookie name=sessionID&value=[cart]&expires=[format days_to_date %A, %d-%b-%Y][math]{[date]}+7[/math][/format] [math time]{[time]}+{05:00:00}[/math] GMT&path=/&domain=.bear.net] [Setcookie name=sessionExpire&value=[math]{[date]}[/math].[format .5d][Math]{[time]}+[timeout][/Math][/format]&expires=[format days_to_date %A, %d-%b-%Y][math]{[date]}[/math][/format] [math time]{[time]}+{00:05:00} [/math] GMT&path=/&domain=.bear.net] [/showif]

exp value [math show=t]exp=[math]{[date]}[/math].[format .5d][Math]{[time]}+[timeout][/Math][/format][/math]
[hideif [raw][sidExpire][/raw]=[sidExpire]] [Setcookie name=sessionExpire&value=[math]{[date]}[/math].[format .5d][Math]{[time]}+[timeout][/Math][/format]&expires=[format days_to_date %A, %d-%b-%Y][math]{[date]}[/math][/format] [math time]{[time]}+{00:05:00} [/math] GMT&path=/&domain=.bear.net] [/hideif] --- end code --- ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Cookie based session management Q (dale's stuff 2002)
Hi,I am trying to build a cookie based session management system for my site. Basically I want to 'remember' the users and to time out their session after a given amount of time.Currently I have something which lets me set a sessionID cookie as well as a sessionExpire cookie. If the sessionExpire cookie doesn't exist then I create a new sessionID.Eventually I will also add the memberID and a couple other cookies for those users that are actually logged in. The current code would be added as an include at the top of each page of the site to track sessions.Using session cookies will let me report on user sessions with my log analyzing software as well.I do have a couple of questions that I hope someone can help on. Currently the only way I could get the expire time to seem to work in the [setcookie] was to use time math to add 5 hours, yet when I look at my cookies they have a proper expire time. I really don't know why that is working properly based on my code. I would like to expire the sessionID cookie as well this same way as it will change after it expires.To store additional info, would you suggest putting that in a sessions.db or just have more cookies? I am only thinking of a couple of things like memberID, possibly email address and their login info (encrypted of course) .Thanks--- begin code --- [math show=f]timeout=60[/math] [math show=f]exp=[math]{[date]}[/math].[format .5d][math]{[time]}+[timeout][/Math][/format][/math] [math show=f]now=[math]{[date]}[/math].[format .5d][math]{[time]}[/Math][/format][/math] [math show=f]raw_dif=[math][format 5f][math][exp]-[now][/math][/format]*100000[/math][/math] ([raw_dif])
[text]sidID=[GETCOOKIE name=sessionID][/text]

[math show=f]sidExpire=[GETCOOKIE name=sessionExpire][/math]

[showif [sidID]=] sidID is blank [Setcookie name=sessionID&value=[cart]&expires=[format days_to_date %A, %d-%b-%Y][math]{[date]}+7[/math][/format] [math time]{[time]}+{05:00:00}[/math] GMT&path=/&domain=.bear.net] [Setcookie name=sessionExpire&value=[math]{[date]}[/math].[format .5d][math]{[time]}+[timeout][/Math][/format]&expires=[format days_to_date %A, %d-%b-%Y][math]{[date]}+7[/math][/format] [math time]{[time]}+{05:00:00} [/math] GMT&path=/&domain=.bear.net] [/showif][showif [raw][sidExpire][/raw]=[sidExpire]] [Setcookie name=sessionID&value=[cart]&expires=[format days_to_date %A, %d-%b-%Y][math]{[date]}+7[/math][/format] [math time]{[time]}+{05:00:00}[/math] GMT&path=/&domain=.bear.net] [Setcookie name=sessionExpire&value=[math]{[date]}[/math].[format .5d][math]{[time]}+[timeout][/Math][/format]&expires=[format days_to_date %A, %d-%b-%Y][math]{[date]}[/math][/format] [math time]{[time]}+{00:05:00} [/math] GMT&path=/&domain=.bear.net] [/showif]

exp value [math show=t]exp=[math]{[date]}[/math].[format .5d][math]{[time]}+[timeout][/Math][/format][/math]
[hideif [raw][sidExpire][/raw]=[sidExpire]] [Setcookie name=sessionExpire&value=[math]{[date]}[/math].[format .5d][math]{[time]}+[timeout][/Math][/format]&expires=[format days_to_date %A, %d-%b-%Y][math]{[date]}[/math][/format] [math time]{[time]}+{00:05:00} [/math] GMT&path=/&domain=.bear.net] [/hideif] --- end code --- ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ dale's stuff

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