Session Id In A Long Life Cookie
Okay, my session's cookie is by default set to destroy on session closure. I want to make this cookie last 30 days. the only way I came up with is to put:
session_set_cookie_params()
before every time I say session_start(). Is there an easier way to do this? something that I can do only once?
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