auto temp file delete

[ptbsG_Man]

Hello, I am going to have zip file creation on my site and need a way to delete the temp zip files say after an hour.
I am running on a XP Pro SP1 running PHP 5.0.0RC2 and apache 1.3.29

Thanks.

[elementaluk]

one way you could do it is if you had the temp file name in a database along with the time it was created, you could just create a function to:
grab everything in the database,
loop through the results,
check whats older than an hour then unlink and delete from the database.

Then all you'd have to do is add this function to a page on your site so its called everytime a user views that page.

its quite a crap idea but it would probably work.

[devinemke]

how 'bout running an hourly cronjob to read the directory and delete any files with a fileatime() older than 1 hour?

[TheDefender]

Windows XP. Can't do a CRON Job.
elementaluk's idea is about the only option... (probably)

[bubblenut]

Originally posted by TheDefender
Windows XP. Can't do a CRON Job.
elementaluk's idea is about the only option... (probably)

It does have Scheduled Tasks though. Never used them myself so I don't know how relevant they are.

[TheDefender]

I have never really looked at the Task Scheduler as an option, as I never thought you could use it to run a PHP script, but apparently, you can according to the link you provided bubblenut... good call.

[ptbsG_Man]

Thanks for the ideas i will prob. play with the DB way