Prevent being logged out from back-office

[Simone Salerno]

Prestashop has an annoying feature that logs you out from the back-office if you do nothing for a certain amount of time (for security reasons, I suppose). I thought this behaviour was configurable from the Preferences panel, with COOKIE LIFETIME BO. So I set it to 24 (1 day), but it still gave me problems. After investingating the code, I found that the amount of time is actually hardcoded in the source, in the file root/classes/controller/AdminController.php  and set to 900 seconds (15 mins).

Here’s the code:

if ($this->context->cookie->last_activity + 900 < time())

    $this->context->employee->logout(); 

All I needed to do was change that to something higher (say 4*3600 = 4 hours) and I still have security, without the pains.

Here's a link to a blog post I wrote about this.

[bellini13]

you should submit this as a defect using their forge, this way they can fix their code and include in a future release

[Simone Salerno]

@bellini13 Thanks for the suggestion. I did it.