How to extend the lifetime of a session variable?

Question

Yii

I set the variable like this:

Yii::$app->session->set('currentSite', $currentSite);

The config is written like this:

'session' => [
    // this is the name of the session cookie used for login on the backend
    'class' => 'yii\web\Session',
    'timeout' => 86400
],

But the variable is more than the standard value (1440 seconds) still does not hold. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

maybe the problem is in php itself
ini_set('session.gc_maxlifetime', 86400);
ini_set('session.cookie_lifetime', 86400);
if the hosting is not yours, then you can still use:
ini_set('session.save_path', $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] .'../sessions/');