Deleting a file a short time after

[D. Alvarado]

Hello,
I have a feature on my site where a user chooses to download a
file, I create the file on a temp location on the server and allow the
user to download the file. I would like the file to be automatically
deleted after half an hour, but I'm a little unsure (and wonder if
it's possible) to do this with PHP.

I am running PHP 4 with Apache 1.27 web server running on Red Hat
Linux.

Much thanks for any advice, - Dave

[Juha Suni]

D. Alvarado wrote:

Hello,
I have a feature on my site where a user chooses to download a
file, I create the file on a temp location on the server and allow the
user to download the file. I would like the file to be automatically
deleted after half an hour, but I'm a little unsure (and wonder if
it's possible) to do this with PHP.

A common working method to time events in a linux environment is the
crontab. By executing shell commands from PHP, or just by editing some
textfiles you can go a long way.

See the crontab manual:
http://sharedhosting.net/support/crontab/man.html
And a quick tutorial: http://weather.ou.edu/~billston/crontab/

HTH

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Suni