Session expiration not working

Hello,



Thanks for this forum : )



Sorry to be quite a beginner in CodeIgniter, which I use for only 3 weeks.



For several days now I'm trying to make my CodeIgniter session expire in more than 2 hours, but I definitively don't find how to do that.



First thing I should say is that my session works well, but only for maybe 2 hours, and then disappears.



In App.php I've replaced

PHP Code:

public int $sessionExpiration = 7200; 


by

PHP Code:

public int $sessionExpiration = 60 * 60 * 24 * 15; // 15 days 


(and then, just in case, by

PHP Code:

public int $sessionExpiration = 1296000; // 15 days 


)



In my BaseController, I have :

PHP Code:

namespace App\Controllers;

use CodeIgniter\Controller;
use CodeIgniter\HTTP\CLIRequest;
use CodeIgniter\HTTP\IncomingRequest;
use CodeIgniter\HTTP\RequestInterface;
use CodeIgniter\HTTP\ResponseInterface;
use Psr\Log\LoggerInterface;
use CodeIgniter\Session\Session;
use Config\App;

abstract class BaseController extends Controller
{
protected $request;
protected $helpers = [];
protected $session;

public function initController(RequestInterface $request, ResponseInterface $response, LoggerInterface $logger)
    {
        // Do Not Edit This Line
        parent::initController($request, $response, $logger);
        $config = new \Config\App();
        $config->sessionExpiration = 1296000;

        $this->session = \Config\Services::session($config);
        $this->session->start();
    }
} 


And then, in my Controllers, I use

PHP Code:

$this->session->set() 


and

PHP Code:

$this->session->get() 


I also tried to switch from

PHP Code:

public string $sessionDriver = FileHandler::class; 


to

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public string $sessionDriver = MemcachedHandler::class; 


but it did not change anything.



Does anyone know why it doesn't work (either in my local server xampp or my online website) ?



If no idea, should I try Cookie instead, and if yes does someone has a good tutorial because I've searched how to do it properly for more than 1 hour (including https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libra...okies.html), without success (I know I'm probably bad, sorry...).



Thanks a lot to anybody who will try to help me

What is your problem?
What does not work? The sessions still expire in 2 hours or so?

You should not call

PHP Code:

$this->session->start() 


in your controller,
because

PHP Code:

\Config\Services::session($config) 


calls it inside.

And you don't need to pass $config if you use the default values in \Config\App.

PHP Code:

public function initController(RequestInterface $request, ResponseInterface $response, LoggerInterface $logger)
    {
        // Do Not Edit This Line
        parent::initController($request, $response, $logger);

        $this->session = \Config\Services::session();
    }
}  


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I did not see your reply, sorry. Thanks.

I've solved the problem by editing the App/Config/Session.php file.