Posted by kick ass on 03/14/07 12:00

I'm almost finished.
I decided to give user the option to answer "yes" or "no" on question "Did
you download your file successfuly?"
If he has pressed "yes", I get notification in my db and then I can choose
if I want to delete file or not.
Later I will also do the expiration script.
Thanks for your help.

"Steve" <no.one@example.com> wrote in message
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> "kick ass" <pub_lander@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> | Thanks,
> | What you are saying makes sense to me.
> | I will shortly explain what I am trying to do:
> |
> | On my page all users have they own username and password.
> | When I translate some document, I upload that document into specific
> users
> | 'mailbox' on my website. So when user logs in, he can see the list of
> files
> | I uploaded for him and he can download them.
> | I will not attempt to delete file after download any more, as you said,
> it's
> | not a good idea.
> | Now, since I keep tracking changes that user makes in my database (i.e.
> when
> | I upload file, it is recorded in database), I would like to do the
> tracking
> | of downloaded files.
> | So when user downloads the file, I would like the php script to insert
> that
> | record into database
> | (i.e. RECORD_NO:216, USER: some_user, DATE OF DOWNLOAD:13.03.2007.,
> | FILE_DOWNLOADED: some_filename).
> | In that way, I could visit my website once a week and even manualy
> delete
> | files that user "took away" to his computer.
> | Is this possible to do in some way, or is it too complicated?
> |
> | Thanks for your efforts
>
> you're welcome...and, it's not too complicated at all. i'd take a two
> pronged approach. i've described the expiration method already. i'd also
> allow the user to manually delete files that are no longer of their
> interest. they may see them as clutter in their 'mailbox'. giving them the
> ability to delete them is just good etiquette on your part.
>
> i'd not actually delete the files if you plan on tracking/auditing...just
> mark them as 'inactive' or something and don't display them again. that
> way,
> depending on the nature/importance, of what is being communicated, your
> report showing the communications will be more valuable...especially if
> the
> authenticisty of the downloaded doc comes into question i.e. altered
> (important for contracts, bol's, sla's, rfp's etc.)
>
> anyway, i get the impression that you're comfortable with the db stuff so
> i
> won't go into all that. i would however, still suggest that you run your
> expiration script in an automated fashion (like on a cron job). you can
> still build in the ability for you to manually expire stuff too.
>
> anyway, hth.
>
>

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