Staying logged in longer

[Jonathan Lahijani]

For at least a few years, I would add the following bit of code to my config.php and I would stay logged in for 7 days, whether or not the browser has been closed:

ini_set('session.cookie_lifetime', 60 * 60 * 24 * 7);
ini_set('session.gc_maxlifetime', 60 * 60 * 24 * 7);

However, that no longer is effective, and I think it has to do with PHP 8.0 or PHP 8.1 changing something.  I'm also on Ubuntu 22.04.

Does anyone know what's going on here?