how to timeout users from website?

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Do you use cookies or session to time out or lock out someone from your website if they have used it for 2 hours? I want it to lock and have them wait an hour before them using it again.

I got the idea from this website that had a message pop up and say

"you have used this site for 2 hours, please wait an hour and come back or become a member and get unlimited hours"

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

Two approaches:

The simple one, in which you set a cookie or session (both use cookies in the end, so it hardly matters) to identify a user. The problem with this is that a user may simply discard his cookies or use a different browser, so this solution will only ever work for rather clueless users. It is probably good enough for your use case.
Go crazy with fuzzy identification of users via neural networks, which may/would allow you to identify users pretty uniquely in a way that would not allow them to "change their identity" easily. This is a really complex solution though and may be overkill or unrealistic for your purposes.

score -2 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 30 '14 at 07:37

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probably this will be helpful to you

  if( !isset($_SESSION['last_access']) || (time() - $_SESSION['last_access']) > 60 )
  $_SESSION['last_access'] = time();

This will update the session every 60s to ensure that the modification date is altered.

answered Apr 30 '14 at 07:37

amit

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This answer doesn't really say anything. At least recite the major points you're trying to make here instead of just linking to another site. – deceze Apr 30 '14 at 07:38
@deceze hope this will say something – amit Apr 30 '14 at 07:44
I think you misunderstand what the OP is asking. – deceze Apr 30 '14 at 07:48

score -2 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 30 '14 at 07:46

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please visit below link to know more details with php code

http://riturajkumar12.blogspot.in/2014/04/expire-session-automatically-after.html

answered Apr 30 '14 at 07:46

Ritu Raj

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