Session age.

[DanUK]

Hello.
Happy new year!

We use session_start() on our header.php (included on most of our files) and I wondered if there was a way to echo the age of the session. We already echo out the session Id on a particular page, but I saw on another website:


Session Information:
0 minute, 15 second


Thanks.

[ShrineDesigns]

try this:<?php
session_start();

echo "session expires in: " . session_cache_expire() . " minute{s}";
?>

[DanUK]

Hello.

Thank you for your reply.

Would that show how long the session has been active? That is what we want to achieve.

By the text you provided it seems it's the expiration...?
*confused*

thanks.

[ShrineDesigns]

if it does, just subtract the session time from the current time

[AdamGundry]

Does this help?
session_start();

if (isset($_SESSION['startTime'])){
$age = (time() - $_SESSION['startTime']);
echo 'Session Information: ' . floor($age / 60) . ' minutes, ' . ($age % 60) . ' seconds';
} else {
$_SESSION['startTime'] = time();
echo "Session Information: just started!";
}

Adam