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Dear all,
I am much more a standard user than a programmer and all the more I am excited about this software. With some basic knowledge in MS Access and LibreOffice base and after understanding to set up a lamp server I was able to create a small web based application with appgini which is perfectly stable in a multiuser environment under Linux now.

My question for the experts is now: Is there a parameter in apache server or appgini or PHP which sets the time for automatic log off during a session which is currently about 15 min. I would like to prolong the session time up to 2 hours. Reason is that in case you have been logged out automatically all the content which is still in buffers and not saved is lost.

Another idea could be to find a “simple” way to force an automatic saving in detailed view(s) e.g. every 10 seconds. But I feel that this might be much more complex compared to prolonging the correct parameter.

Best regards

please try this and kindly confirm if it fixes the issue to implement it in future releases: Open the generated lib.php file in a text editor and find this line:
Add the following code above it:
This should keep the user signed in for up to 8 hours (8 hours * 3600 seconds per hour = 28800).

Yesterday evening I made a first test with following changes and after a first check it seems to prolong the session time to 1h which I was looking for.
I modified the parameter "session.gc_maxlifetime = 3600” in file “/etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini”
Since you are proposing to modify same parameter it should work too I guess.
Thanks for reply

New to Appgini and was glad to have found this post. Added the two lines into lib.php as suggest by Ahmad and waited for the time-out to kick in. It did and took the screen back to the login prompt. Hope this will become a standard, configurable feature within AppGini for it being a common feature in the industrial-strength web app these days. Also we don't have to keep track of the customization manually.