Re: Override session timeout for a user group

Thanks for the response, after lots of playing around the only way
I've been able to get it to work has been to use cookies

so in the login method I have
$groupId = $this->Authed->user( 'group_id' );
if( $groupId == 2 )
{
$this->Cookie->write( 'extend_session', '1', false, '+7 days' );
}
else
{
$this->Cookie->delete( 'extend_session' );
}

then in config/core.php I have

$extendSession = false;
if( array_key_exists( 'CakeCookie', $_COOKIE ) and
array_key_exists( 'extend_session', $_COOKIE[ 'CakeCookie' ] ) and
$_COOKIE[ 'CakeCookie' ][ 'extend_session' ] == '1' )
{
$extendSession = true;
}

if( $extendSession )
{
// 8 hours for logistics
Configure::write( 'Session.timeout', '288' );
}
elseif( (bool) strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],'iPad') )
{
// 1 hour for ipad
Configure::write( 'Session.timeout', '36' );
}
else
{
// 15 mins for normal user
Configure::write( 'Session.timeout', '9' );
}

That seems to work ok

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