Yii session storage, lifetime and cookies - php

Question

Working with the Yii framework in the config-file session storaged is handled as follows:
'session' => array(
//'sessionName' => 'SomeSession',
'class' => 'CDbHttpSession',
'connectionID' => 'SomeConnection',
'autoCreateSessionTable' => false,
'sessionTableName' => 'SomeTable',
'autoStart' => 'false',
'cookieMode' => 'only',
'useTransparentSessionID' => false,
'timeout' => CSESSIONTIMEOUT,
'cookieParams' => array(
'path' => '/',
'domain' => '.somedomain.extension',
'expire' => time()+5256000,
'lifetime' => time()+5256000,
//'httpOnly' => true,
),
),
So as you see sessions are stored in a table in a database with a given lifetime. But if I check the stored sessions in the database they are not stored with the given lifetime they are stored with a lifetime of a year.
The only thing I can find in our application that has a lifetime of a year are the cookies. For example like this:
setcookie("cookie_name", $someValue, time()[phone], "/", "somedomain");
What is confusing for me are the cookies in our application. Could it be possible that this overrides the Yii session storage config?
UPDATE
I also came across this line of code
$_SESSION['POLL_'.$idPoll.'somekey'] = strtotime("now");
And that line of code inserted a session record in the database. But that record also has an lifetime of a year. How is this possible?

Answer 1

You need to add timeout param to config like this:
'session' => array(
'class' => 'CDbHttpSession',
'timeout' => 5256000,
// ...

Answer 2

Try Cookies Like this : -
if (isset($_POST['remember'])) {
$cookieUsername = new CHttpCookie('phoenix_admin_username', $_POST['LoginForm']['username']);
$cookiePassword = new CHttpCookie('phoenix_admin_password', base64_encode($_POST['LoginForm']['password']));
$cookieUsername->expire = time() + 604800;
$cookiePassword->expire = time() + 604800;
Yii::app()->request->cookies['phoenix_admin_username'] = $cookieUsername;
Yii::app()->request->cookies['phoenix_admin_password'] = $cookiePassword;
}
////////////Check like this//////////////
if(isset(Yii::app()->request->cookies['phoenix_admin_username'])){
$model->username = Yii::app()->request->cookies['phoenix_admin_username']->value;
$model->password = base64_decode(Yii::app()->request->cookies['phoenix_admin_password']->value);
}else{
$model->username = "";
$model->password = "";
}