Posted by chris.g.wood on 07/03/06 23:17

laredotornado@zipmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using PHP 4.3. There is a section of my application in which I'd
> like users to be able to download a custom file. The file would be
> different for each user, so I was planning on creating it on the fly
> when they click "Download". However, I would like to delete the file
> from the server a certain period of time after they've downloaded it.
> (It's a 3 or 4K file). How can I do this?
>
> Thanks, - Dave

Think a few have pointed this out, but you don't need to store the
file, something like:

header('Content-Type: text/html');
header('Content-Length:' . filesize(........));
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="..........."');
// Display what you want to output
print "Something, Or, Other, just testing, the way this works";
// Output a new line else everything is all on one line.
print "\n";
print "www.whatever.co.uk";
print "\n";


Obviously the script can be changed for each user using a little php.

I've a collection of useful scripts on a site I put together (nothing
major, just slowly collecting together things i've written over the
years).
http://www.opanoid.co.uk/phphelp/

C Wood.

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