How to make joomla login never expires like Facebook?

[skyfranky]

Hi

I want to make my joomla user login never expires like Facebook. Possible?

https://www.quora.com/Facebook-and-Gmai ... hieve-this

Thanks

[mjparadac]

Hello skyfranky

Browsers close sessions if you close them. That is simply because the server identifies the user through a cookie. Session cookies are usually set to live only for as long as the browser is open.

The solution for your problem is to use time based cookies instead. PHP can do this for you. You can do this with PHP code or by configuration.

More information
https://www.php.net/manual/en/session.c ... e-lifetime
https://www.php.net/manual/en/function. ... params.php
https://docs.joomla.org/J3.x:Global_con ... ings_Group

[skyfranky]

Thanks for the reply.

I see some app or websites, even browser closed, login always valid until I manually click logout.

Joomla Session Lifetime can only set 9999 mins as maximum.

How to set never expires in Joomla with PHP?

Thanks

[Per Yngve Berg]

https://extensions.joomla.org/extension/session-keeper/

[skyfranky]

Hello skyfranky

Browsers close sessions if you close them. That is simply because the server identifies the user through a cookie. Session cookies are usually set to live only for as long as the browser is open.

The solution for your problem is to use time based cookies instead. PHP can do this for you. You can do this with PHP code or by configuration.

More information
https://www.php.net/manual/en/session.c ... e-lifetime
https://www.php.net/manual/en/function. ... params.php
https://docs.joomla.org/J3.x:Global_con ... ings_Group

I set PHP as session handler in joomla config setting. Joomla Session Lifetime can only set 9999 mins as maximum. but it still logouts after that. nowadays, I see many websites never logs me out.

[Per Yngve Berg]

Session Keeper have a js script that access the site before the session expires.
The server have a cron job that purge session files at regular intervals. Don't set the session life to high, that will build up a lot of sessions on the server.