John Davidson

Message:

I`m building a whatsapp bot, the bot is fully operational, but I want to do a API call if user does not interact with the api after some time. I tryed to do with session, but is not working, I tryed the following code.

session_start();



//**my bot code**



$minutesBeforeSessionExpire=30;

if (isset($_SESSION['LAST_ACTIVITY']) && (time() - $_SESSION['LAST_ACTIVITY'] > (2))) {



    $data2 = [

        'phone' => $_SESSION['phone'],

        'body' => 'Hello, Andrew!',

    ];

    $json2 = json_encode($data2);

    $options2 = stream_context_create(['http' => [

            'method'  => 'POST',

            'header'  => 'Content-type: application/json',

            'content' => $json2

        ]

    ]);

    $result2 = file_get_contents('api_call', false, $options2);

    session_unset();     // unset $_SESSION   

    session_destroy();   // destroy session data  

}

$_SESSION['LAST_ACTIVITY'] = time(); // update last activity

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My Answer:
&& (time() - $_SESSION['LAST_ACTIVITY'] > ($minutesBeforeSessionExpire * 60))) {
// API call code here
$_SESSION['LAST_ACTIVITY'] = time(); // update last activity time
} else {
$_SESSION['LAST_ACTIVITY'] = time(); // update last activity time
}