hey all,

i've one page on my site where i need to handle with sessions

at this page (its a page normal writen in the cms) i can't use php

i need it to logout a user after 1800 seconds.

how to handle with this?

In the CMS i can't input the php that's needed for the session

Thanx for reply

I'd solve this by
1) writing a timestamp to the users session and a small javascript that informs the user that his session is going to time out. after the time period elapsed, i'll call a logout function on that page (see 'controller' and 'ajax_basics' on doc.silverstripe.org to get an idea of this).

2) because javascript is not trustworthy, I would additionally do a serverside check. If user is also known to silverstripe, the 'Member' class might help you with that.

hey,dompie.

I have came into the same problem.
I also want to do a session time out for logging out a current user.

1) writing a timestamp to the users session and a small javascript that informs the user that his session is going to time out. after the time period elapsed, i'll call a logout function on that page (see 'controller' and 'ajax_basics' on doc.silverstripe.org to get an idea of this).

i have looked up the doc for silverstripe ajax part, still not too sure how to achieve a timer here to inform user here.
any hint ?
Thanks

Everything pure theory:

Serverside
1) On login: save logout time to session
2) In Page->init(), before parent::init() check if value is present in session.
3) if present, check if logout is requred and do it eventually
4) eventually you want to write these values to your javascript file via javascriptTemplate (depends on your solution)

Javascript
1) check if logout time is set (in session and/or script)
2) if present, check logout conditions and call a logout url
3) for calling a logout url, it may be required to implement an url_handler to your responsible Controller. maybe silverstripe has already one present for logging out user.