Clear Old Sessions

Hi @okorieware,

You can change the session lifetime with the pantheon_session_expiration filter. Something like this should do the trick:

add_filter( 'pantheon_session_expiration', function() { return HOUR_IN_SECONDS * 24; } );

Hope this helps!

Thank you very much @danielbachhuber

Well,

I’ve monitored Pantheon Sessions under wp-admin for the past few days, but still find that sessions are not automatically cleared after my set period.

The following is what I’m using:

add_action("plugins_loaded", function () {
	add_filter("pantheon_session_expiration", function() {
		// todo: 24 hours
		return HOUR_IN_SECONDS * 6;
	});

Can I genuinely clear them automatically?
I don’t want defunct sessions to be accumulating.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by OkorieWare. Reason: typo

Hi @okorieware,

The pantheon_session_expiration filter sets the session.cookie_lifetime setting, which:

specifies the lifetime of the cookie in seconds which is sent to the browser. The value 0 means “until the browser is closed.” Defaults to 0.

With the code snippet you shared, a cookie will be valid for 6 hours.

If this isn’t what you want, can you describe with a bit more detail about what you’re trying to do?

Hi @danielbachhuber,

What I want is to automatically clear sessions older than 24 hours from Native PHP Sessions database, the one that appears under “wp-admin \ Pantheon Sessions” with the “Clear All” button.

Makes sense, thanks for clarifying ??

Here’s a code snippet that registers a twice-daily cron job to delete all sessions older than 24 hours: https://gist.github.com/danielbachhuber/c49a6bccfd2fbeab5512c376dd1c5b36

Interesting!

Thanks again.

Hi there. I copy the code that you’ve give here. But it does not work.

add_filter( 'pantheon_session_expiration', function() { return 300; } );

Am I missing something here?