Contents of this file

• Overview
• Installation
• Customization
• Features

Overview

Timeout Notification is a module utilizing Drupal's session lifetime settings found in the services.yml file. This will provide the users a simple notification of an upcoming session expiration, allowing them to renew their current session without losing any critical data due to unknown loss of session.

Installation

1. Place the timeout-notification directory in your modules directory.
2. Enable the Timeout Notification module at admin/modules.

Customization

For control of Drupal's session variables, they can be accessed through sites->default->services.yml.

• gc_maxlifetime - is used to set the session lifetime (in seconds). i.e. the time from the user's last visit to the active session may be deleted by the session garbage collector. When a session is deleted, authenticated users are logged out,and the contents of the user's $_SESSION variable is discarded.

  By default gc_maxlifetime is set to 200000 seconds.

Configure Timeout Notification settings.

• settings can be altered at admin/config/timeout_notification for project specific customization.

  i.e seconds in advance to notify users of upcoming session expiration. By default, this is set to 60 seconds.

Features

The module was designed to allow exporting of all the admin configuration options via Drupal 8 Configuration Management.