Yii users being logged out after 15-30 minutes des

Question

I've included the relevent parts of our Yii config file below:

return array(
...
    'components'=>array(
        'session' => array(
            'timeout' => 86400,
        ),
        'user'=>array(
            'allowAutoLogin' => true,
            'autoRenewCookie' => true,
            'authTimeout' => 31557600,
        ),
    ...
    ),
...
);

I have also been into php.ini and set session.gc_maxlifetime = 86400 but this still hasn't fixed the problem.

Currently, Im absolutely at a loss as to what else could be causing it to timeout and log the user out after roughly 15-30 minutes of inactivity. Ideally users should remain logged in for at least a day of inactivity (and beyond closing the browser window, browser preferences allowing).

I've trawled google, Yii and stack overflow and just can't find anything that I'm overlooking... but clearly I am overlooking something. If anyone can help me out I'd be very grateful.

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A sample of typical code that we are using to log in the users was requested and is included below:

$identity = new UserIdentity('facebook', $id, $user->name, $user->email);
$loggedIn = Yii::app()->user->login($identity);
$this->subscriptionChecker->updateCurrentUserSubscribed();

This is pretty typical of any time that Yii::app()->user->login() is called

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From Chrome, here are the cookies I have for the site and their expiries (after clearing all cookies and just logging in):

PHPSESSID expires When the browsing session ends

// I'm informed these are set by google analytics  
__utma created Friday, 12 October 2012 14:05:31 expires Sunday, 12 October 2014 14:05:31

__utmb created Friday 12 October 2012 14:05:31 expires Friday 12 October 2012 14:35:31,

__utmc created Friday, 12 October 2012 14:05:31 expires When the browsing session ends

__utmz created Friday 12 October 2012 14:05:31 expires Saturday 13 April 2013 02:05:31  
// end google analytics

Answer 1

For Yii2

This solution after login for session cookies set expire time after 7 days:

'components' => [
    'session' => [
        'class' => 'yii\web\Session',
        'cookieParams' => ['lifetime' => 7 * 24 *60 * 60]
    ],

Answer 2

For Yii2 version

In your /config/params.php set the timeout in seconds:

'sessionTimeoutSeconds' => '1800',

In you controllers/SiteController.php actionLogin() method add the following:

// Set the user session timeout
Yii::$app->session->set('userSessionTimeout', time() + Yii::$app->params['sessionTimeoutSeconds']);

Also add the beforeAction method in the SiteController.php

public function beforeAction($action)
{

    if (!parent::beforeAction($action)) {
        return false;
    }

    // Check only when the user is logged in
    if ( !Yii::$app->user->isGuest)  {
        if (Yii::$app->session['userSessionTimeout'] < time()) {
            Yii::$app->user->logout();
        } else {
            Yii::$app->session->set('userSessionTimeout', time() + Yii::$app->params['sessionTimeoutSeconds']);
            return true; 
        }
    } else {
        return true;
    }
}

In your views/layouts/main.php: Between the head DOM to add the auto refresh header to sent the app back to login view.

<? if (!Yii::$app->user->isGuest) { ?>
            <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="<?php echo Yii::$app->params['sessionTimeoutSeconds'];?>;"/>
<? } ?>

Answer 3

http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/api/1.1/CWebUser#login-detail

Thanks to help from Arfeen who pointed me in the right direction, unless you set the second parameter of Yii::app()->user->login() it turns out that Yii will not use a persistent cookie, as the second parameter defaults to 0. This default 0-value overrides anything else you might have set to do with timeouts.

Answer 4

Try this: first one when you got login you could set setState this:

yii::app()->user->setState('userSessionTimeout', time() + Yii::app()->params['sessionTimeoutSeconds']); 

add those are text companents.controller.php

 public function beforeAction(){
            // Check only when the user is logged in
            if ( !Yii::app()->user->isGuest)  {
               if ( yii::app()->user->getState('userSessionTimeout') < time() ) {
                   // timeout
                   Yii::app()->user->logout();
                   $this->redirect(array('/site/login'));  //
               } else {
                   yii::app()->user->setState('userSessionTimeout', time() + Yii::app()->params['sessionTimeoutSeconds']) ;
                   return true; 
               }
            } else {
                return true;
            }
        }

and add those are in config main.php file:

'params'=>array( 'sessionTimeoutSeconds'=>1800, // 30 minute ),

Answer 5

I had a identical problem, even if i make authTimeout 3600 * 24 ( 24 hours ) the user still making logout in about 30 minutes. I discovered that on php.ini there is a option:

session.gc_maxlifetime

for default this options is 24 minutes, so i changed for what i needed

session.gc_maxlifetime = 86400

24 hours. Problem Solved for me.

Hope this could help someone!