Increase session timout

[Tamriel]

I think, one can sett the session timeout in system/config/system.yaml to a maximum of 9999.
I would like to increase that to weeks or "forever".

[rhukster]

There's really no simple way to set a session timeout to 'forever' because the the session cookie needs to take a unix timestamp (date in seconds). The only real option is to make that number bigger.

We can look at increasing this available option in the admin, but in the meantime you can edit the value directly in user/config/system.yaml. For example 99999999 is over 3 years.

[rhukster]

Actually the timeout has no maximum even in the admin:

   session.timeout:
                    type: text
                    size: small
                    append: NICETIME.SECOND_PLURAL
                    label: PLUGIN_ADMIN.TIMEOUT
                    help: PLUGIN_ADMIN.TIMEOUT_HELP
                    validate:
                        type: number
                        min: 1

Where are you seeing a maximum?

[Tamriel]

Interesting. I tried that with 9999999999999 and got 'Expiry date cannot have a year greater than 9999' when visiting the normal website (not the admin interface). I created this issue, because 9999 was to little for me. Using 99999999 works.

[rhukster]

Ok that probably goes beyond the limit of what a computer can handle for dates.

[Tamriel]

I propose changing the error message from Expiry date cannot have a year greater than 9999 to 99999999, since 9999 is a unsatisfying maximum.

[rhukster]

The error message is coming from php saying the year cannot be larger than 9999. I.e. With your 9999999999999 value the calculated expiry date is larger than 12/31/9999 which is beyond a valid date.

[rhukster]

BTW, added a quick fix to ensure that you don't go beyond the max value.

[Tamriel]

Great, thanks! :-)