Login issues - bounty being offered
Liam Dawe Dec 7, 2019
Hello all, if you know your way around PHP I may have a little job for you. I'm offering a current bounty of £50 to anyone who can figure out why the GOL cookie that keeps people logged in, vanishes seemingly at random.

Details here: https://gitlab.com/liamdawe/gamingonlinux/issues/379

Last edited by Liam Dawe on 7 December 2019 at 10:54 am UTC
Pangaea Dec 8, 2019
I like cookies.

*snip* - plz, no - liam

Last edited by Liam Dawe on 8 December 2019 at 8:37 pm UTC
Salvatos Dec 8, 2019
Have you had reports of this behaviour from multiple users? The only time I was logged out unexpectedly was when I tried using a Firefox pinned tab here, so maybe there's something about how PHP sessions are handled in that case.

As a sidenote, it looks like your cake day code doesn't account for February 29th accounts on non-leap years. I think changing line 577 to this would handle it on March 1st but I'm a bit rusty:
if ((($reg_month == date('m') && $reg_day == date('d')) || ($reg_month == "02" && $reg_day == "29" && date('m') == "03" && date('d') == "01")) && $reg_year != date('Y'))
Liam Dawe Dec 8, 2019
Quoting: SalvatosHave you had reports of this behaviour from multiple users? The only time I was logged out unexpectedly was when I tried using a Firefox pinned tab here, so maybe there's something about how PHP sessions are handled in that case.
Yes, lots of people had the issue, myself included. I've adjusted a few bits over the last day or two which might fix it. So far, so good.

Quoting: SalvatosAs a sidenote, it looks like your cake day code doesn't account for February 29th accounts on non-leap years. I think changing line 577 to this would handle it on March 1st but I'm a bit rusty:
if ((($reg_month == date('m') && $reg_day == date('d')) || ($reg_month == "02" && $reg_day == "29" && date('m') == "03" && date('d') == "01")) && $reg_year != date('Y'))
Hmmm, odd, never even though of that. Don't see why it wouldn't work though, it's doing a real basic comparison directly against a timestamp parsed with PHP's date.

EDIT: Switched over the cake-day comparison to use PHP's DATETIME diff, should solve any leap year stuff and works nicer anyway.

Last edited by Liam Dawe on 8 December 2019 at 8:33 pm UTC
Liam Dawe Dec 12, 2019
Update: One confirmed issue was identified and fixed today, let's see how it goes.
Salvatos Dec 12, 2019
Quoting: Liam DaweEDIT: Switched over the cake-day comparison to use PHP's DATETIME diff, should solve any leap year stuff and works nicer anyway.
Sorry to bring the side topic back up but I think you forgot to check that the user has been here more than 0 year :)

Liam Dawe Dec 12, 2019
Oops, fixed!
Sojiro84 Dec 12, 2019
I had this issue a few times as well, but very rarely. I can stay logged in for weeks and then all of a sudden I am not. I hope a fix can be found!
Liam Dawe Dec 16, 2019
Since this seems solved, closing. If anyone has logout issues, make a new post.
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