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use Widgets\WidgetArea;

// --- Session lifetime tuning (make login persist across browser restarts) ---
// Configure the session cookie to last 7 days (604800 seconds).
// IMPORTANT: Server-side session storage must also last at least this long.
// If PHP's GC cleans up earlier than the cookie, users will appear logged out.
// We set both cookie lifetime and gc_maxlifetime here for app-scoped control.
// Adjust $lifetime to taste (e.g., 86400 for 24h, 2592000 for 30d).
$lifetime = 604800; // 7 days in seconds

// Detect HTTPS to set the 'secure' flag safely
$is_https = (
(!empty($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && $_SERVER['HTTPS'] !== 'off') ||
(isset($_SERVER['SERVER_PORT']) && $_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'] == 443) ||
(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO']) && $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO'] === 'https')
);

// For widest compatibility (PHP 7.3+ supports both samesite ini and array API)
@ini_set('session.gc_maxlifetime', (string) $lifetime);
@ini_set('session.cookie_lifetime', (string) $lifetime);
@ini_set('session.cookie_secure', $is_https ? '1' : '0');
@ini_set('session.cookie_httponly', '1');
@ini_set('session.cookie_samesite', 'Lax'); // change to 'Strict' or 'None' if needed

session_set_cookie_params([
'lifetime' => $lifetime,
'path' => '/',
'secure' => $is_https,
'httponly' => true,
'samesite' => 'Lax',
]);
session_start();

if (isset($_POST['admin_login'])) {
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