Description:
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Dear Whomever,

I have recently launched the new Planet-Tolkien.com.

It would appear that for Mozilla and Opera keeping a $_SESSION is not an issue and the $_SESSION is continued until the member logs out. However when members are using Internet Explorer browser 6 (and maybe other versions), they can go around the site for varied amounts of time, usually less than five to ten minutes and then their $_SESSION will expire!!??

I cannot for the life of me figure out why a server side $_SESSION would expire on IE but not for MOZ or Opera but it is, and I need to figure out why and how can I fix this.

I have read a similar bug report with reference to this, about hostnames having underscores in them, but this is not the problem in our case.

REF. All login information is saved as such:

session_save_path("$path/sessions");
session_start();
//store member session information
$session_memberID=$row[id];
$session_username=$row[username];
$session_groupID=$row[membergroup];
session_register("session_memberID");
session_register("session_username");
session_register("session_groupID");
//$_SESSION['session_memberID']=$session_memberID;
//$_SESSION['session_username']=$session_username;
//$_SESSION['session_groupID']=$membergroup;

Please please please help, I truelly have tried everything!

In Fellowship,
Tarrant

Reproduce code:
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// EXAMPLE CODE 1: 
// member login successfull so register sessions

session_save_path("$path/sessions");
session_start();
//store member session information
$session_memberID=$row[id];
$session_username=$row[username];
$session_groupID=$row[membergroup];
session_register("session_memberID");
session_register("session_username");
session_register("session_groupID");
//$_SESSION['session_memberID']=$session_memberID;
//$_SESSION['session_username']=$session_username;
//$_SESSION['session_groupID']=$membergroup;

// EXAMPLE CODE 2: check member is logged in
Function checkLoginIn() {
	if(!isset($_SESSION['session_memberID'])) {
		return false;
	} else {
		return true;
	}
}