Posted by Marek Kilimajer on 09/27/00 11:08

Shaun wrote:
> Hi Marek,
>
> Thanks for your reply, could you tell me how I would go about this please?
>
>
> "Marek Kilimajer" <lists@kilimajer.net> wrote in message
> news:42127AFF.4090705@kilimajer.net...
>
>>Shaun wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I have a database that contains encrypted data using Mysql function
>>>ENCODE(). Certain users will be allowed to view this data and I will
>>>allow them to download a CSV file contain the decrypted data using the
>>>Mysql DECODE() function. However I don't want this file to be left on the
>>>server, is there a way to ensure that the file is deleted immediately
>>>after it has been downloaded?
>>
>>Don't put the file to a file at all, simply output the right header and
>>echo the content.
>
>

$csv contains the result of the mysql decode() function, then:

header('Content-Type: text/x-csv');

echo $csv;


That's it :)

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