codeigniter cookie expiry problem

Question

I\'m having a cookie issue, the expiry date on my cookie is always being set to At End Of Session which isn\'t what I want. I did a bit of goggling and it suggested it set t

Answer 1

You can add params

$config['cookie_lifetime']  = 1800

in config.php, the reason you can find in libraries/Sessions/Session.php, code below

$expiration = config_item('sess_expiration');

if (isset($params['cookie_lifetime']))
{
    $params['cookie_lifetime'] = (int) $params['cookie_lifetime'];
}
else
{
    $params['cookie_lifetime'] = (!isset($expiration) && config_item('sess_expire_on_close'))
        ? 0 : (int) $expiration;
}