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Countdown hook with the possibility to extend the session time.
If you lose track of time while editing a product or a category, the PHP session can expire. By default, this is set to 1440 seconds in PHP 8.x. That's 24 minutes. After that, all input fields are declared as garbage. This means that if you save a product after the end of the PHP session, all product data will then be gone. For this case, I first built a countdown with a popup requester, which indicates the remaining time at around 5 minutes and with which the session can be renewed. Then I thought it would be good to automate this. The Countdown is displayed as clickable button in the top left corner, and starts an automatic renew loop if clicked. The warning still appears five minutes before the session ends, if not switched to unlimited. After clicking on extend, the time should start again.