How to keep forum session alive on non-forum pages?
 

evening all. so I downloaded on of the modules that allows you to login with your forum credentials on NON-forum pages. I'm doing this to have a shared login for the rest of my site.

however, despite still being logged in on the forums, even if I am constantly active while logged in on non-forum pages, I get timed out and logged out.

so my question is, how do i keep the forum session alive on the non-forum pages?

cheers

Someone was just asking about this - I think the session is kept alive by updating lastactivity in the session table, and it's done as a shutdown query so you need to call exec_shut_down() a the end of your script (which is done by print_output() in most vB scripts). But I guess that assumes that you're including global.php or init.php.

Which module are you talking about?

thanks for the tip kh99. I'll try out calling that function.

I'm using this module https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=173693

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looks like calling exec_shut_down() worked. my session has yet to time out. cheers kh99!!