Hi

From what I understand, a session is deleted after the browser window
is closed. I have been trying to work out why the session file remains
on the server (it is named something like sess_3ghy6...) and has to be
manually deleted. I want to avoid having hundreds of these files
collecting on the server and would appreciate any advice on why they
aren't automatically deleting when the browser closes.

Here is part of my php info file if that s.

session.auto_start Off Off
session.bug_compat_42 On On
session.bug_compat_warn On On
session.cache_expire 180 180
session.cache_limiter nocache nocache
session._domain no value no value
session._lifetime 0 0
session._path / /
session._secure Off Off
session.entropy_file no value no value
session.entropy_length 0 0
session.gc_divisor 100 100
session.gc_maxlifetime 1440 1440
session.gc_probability 1 1
session.name PHPSESSID PHPSESSID
session.referer_check no value no value
session.save_handler files files
session.save_path .\ .\
session.serialize_handler php php
session.use_ On On
session.use_only_ Off Off
session.use_trans_sid Off Off

Thanks
Andrew

On Feb 21, 5:50 am, ajd...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi
>
> From what I understand, a session is deleted after the browser window
> is closed. I have been trying to work out why the session file remains
> on the server (it is named something like sess_3ghy6...) and has to be
> manually deleted. I want to avoid having hundreds of these files
> collecting on the server and would appreciate any advice on why they
> aren't automatically deleting when the browser closes.
>
> Here is part of my php info file if that s.
>
> session.auto_start Off Off
> session.bug_compat_42 On On
> session.bug_compat_warn On On
> session.cache_expire 180 180
> session.cache_limiter nocache nocache
> session._domain no value no value
> session._lifetime 0 0
> session._path / /
> session._secure Off Off
> session.entropy_file no value no value
> session.entropy_length 0 0
> session.gc_divisor 100 100
> session.gc_maxlifetime 1440 1440
> session.gc_probability 1 1
> session.name PHPSESSID PHPSESSID
> session.referer_check no value no value
> session.save_handler files files
> session.save_path .\ .\
> session.serialize_handler php php
> session.use_ On On
> session.use_only_ Off Off
> session.use_trans_sid Off Off
>
> Thanks
> Andrew

The server doesn't immediately delete session files, it does so during
a garbage collection cycle. One thing you can do if you are concerned
about space and you do have your users log out, is during log out is
either use session_destroy(); or empty the session array ($_SESSION =
array()

Check out this page and look for garbage collect to learn more:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/webdb...pter/ch08.html

Larry