How to expire orders using sessions

Question

I am trying to work out with PHP session and what I want to do is to expire my orders saved in the database after a 30 minutes of inactivity on the order made without payment been completed.

My Questions

How do I create session to specifically handle the orders in my database?
How to destroy session {id} generated specifically for orders when 30mins of inactivity is due?

Just need ideas on how to complete that.

1. Why do you need session for handling databases? 2. you would achieve this using server cron, 3. don't understand what are you asking ? If you are saving your order infos into database then why do you need sessions for managing them??? — Hirdesh Vishwdewa, Aug 07 '15 at 10:00
I have removed thanks note, unnecessary introduction and fixed capitalization mistakes. — Harry, Aug 09 '15 at 10:59

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:43

i want to do is to expire my orders saved in the database after a 30 minutes of inactivity on the order made without payment been completed-

Use cron job .

if you are using database tables to store order information, it will be easy for you to run a cron job, which will run every minute (or every 30 secs, or every 15 secs etc) and will disable/delete all the orders which are inactive from last 30 minutes.

This way disabling inactive orders will also be automatised as well.

Refer this link for looking how to create a cron.

No need to use sessions if you have to do the above task only.

How to expire orders using sessions

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