delete any file ( automatic delete )

[Snowfall]

Hi all

I have files ( image ) in folder, I like delete any image in this folder after end thirty days ( automatic delete )

please code with example:mad:

[planetsim]

Im not sure how you are going to do this.. But you could probably read all the the files last modification time

so

$file = stat("filename"); 

if ($file['mtime'] <= time()-(60*60*24*30)) {
  //delete file
} else {
  //do not delete
}

This is untested so it may not work

To find out about stat go here
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.stat.php

[jcantrell]

Depeding on the filenames you are using, and how attached to them you are, you could just stick the date at the beginning of each file.

ex. 2003-09-13bike.jpg

Then write a script that would go through and take
substr($filename,0,10)
and if that is more than 30 days away delete it.

Set up a cron job to run this script every day, or if you don't have access, run it yourself, or include it in a page that gets a lot of visitors.

This little snippet should do what you need for calling the images in the directory, and deleting them. Might need a few modifications, I just threw it together.

<?
// path/to/images is the full unix path.  Ex. /home/httpd/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/pictures
$todaysdate = time();
$handle=opendir('/path/to/images'); 
while (false!==($file = readdir($handle)))
{ 
	if ($file != "." && $file != ".." && $file != "index.php")
	{ 
		$filedate = strtotime ("substr($file,0,10)");
                        $thirtydays =  86,400  * 30;

                      $diff = $todaysdate - $filedate

	if ($diff >= $thirtydays)
		{
			exec("rm -f /path/to/images/$file");
		}
} 
}
closedir($handle); 
?>

This is pretty much untested, I just through it together, and I'm a little rusty working with timestamps, so you might need to read the manual with that, but otherwise this should start you in the right direction.

Hope it helps!

JAKE