Forcing download and auto-deletion

Anon

My problem is two-fold here. I've got a script which takes a string created by a SQL query and turns it into a .txt file. Problem is, I don't know how to use the header() function to make the file call for the prompt to save (i.e. I think it should be "content-type: application/octet-stream", but I don't know where to put the header in the .php or .phtml page to make that happen), instead of just pushing the .txt file to appear in the browser.

The other problem I'm having is that I want to somehow set an expiration date on these files I'm creating so that, at the end of the day they were created, they expire and unlink themselves automatically, OR have a script run that checks the expiration date, and deletes them that way.

Any help will be appreciated.

Anon

1) check out the forum as there have been excellent answers to this question some time ago.

2) You can't. plain and simple. And why? Well, do you want other people to be able to delete random files on your harddisk?

And even if it were possible, people would download the file and simply make a copy of it before you delete the original.

Anon

1) I thought I'd checked before...maybe I was just tired and imagined it.

2) Ask my boss.

Merry XMas 🙂

vincent wrote:

1) check out the forum as there have been excellent answers to this question some time ago.

2) You can't. plain and simple. And why? Well, do you want other people to be able to delete random files on your harddisk?

And even if it were possible, people would download the file and simply make a copy of it before you delete the original.

Anon

1) Well it's a big forum, lots of info, sometimes its tricky to find what you need.

2) "My boss made me do it". Allways a good excuse :-)

Merry Xmas!