[Nelug] phpmyadmin and timeouts

[Scott Wilcox]

Theres an option in the PHPMyAdmin config for the session timeout, just 
set it to something stupid and you'll not timeout. I think that 0 may 
actually disable it

Scott.

Dougie Nisbet wrote:
> As mentioned elsewhere I've been playing around with mysql and after 
> replies on the list I've discovered phpmyadmin.
>
> Earlier I used firefox on my PC running XP to connect to my linux 
> server running mysql. I selected the database and did a bit of data 
> entry on a record. Then I forgot what I was doing, went off did 
> something else for a while, came back and carried on. When I clicked 
> on 'Go' to insert the record it told me that my session had timed out 
> and I would have to log back in again. I did so and sure enough the 
> data I'd entered for the new record hadn't been committed.
>
> I've been looking to see if there's a way that I can stop this 
> happening, or at least to get a warning before commiting that the 
> session has timed out, or even somehow retrieving the SQL statement 
> that had failed and re-running it. I got hopeful when I found a tab 
> that said 'SQL History' but it was empty. I've found that my clicking 
> on Home I can a load of system variables but no way of changing them.
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction and tell me if it's 
> possible to change the timeout or, ideally, disable it completely? Or 
> if there's a way of retrieving and Insert statement so that I can 
> re-submit it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dougie
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