I’ve been tearing out my hair trying to figure out how to have persistent sessions on the client. Okay, I’ve done it before on several projects but those ones didn’t use a database-based session handler.

I’ve called session_set_cookie_params to no avail everywhere in my code — the time in the db’s correct, but the session always expires when the browser is closed. Setting the session cookie myself gives a different problem — it gets invalidated on the next page load.

Arrrrrrrgh! I hope it really is because I’m running it on a local domain. If it isn’t, I just might get angry, download the PHP source, learn C and rewrite PHP in no particular order (I wish!).