Delete a file after 72 hours?

[Percadan]

What would be the best way of going about this.
I am uploading files to a directory and I would like to have a script that automatically deletes them after 72 hours.

Thanks for the help.

[TheDefender]

Setup a DB that stores the filename and uploaded time. If the server is *nix based, Then create an hourly CRON job that checks the current time, and deletes all files with times that are 72 hours old or older...

[Butthead]

maybe something like this

untested use at your own risk

#directory to scan
$Directory = "some_dir"

#time in seconds
$time = "259200"

if ($files = opendir($Directory)){
        while (false !== ($currentFile = readdir($files))){
                #skip "." and ".."
                if ($currentFile != "." && $currentFile != "..") { 

                    #get current time (unix epoch)
                    $currentTime = date(U);

                    #get file times (remember, it's epoch)
                    $fileTime = date(filemtime("$Directory/$currentFile"));

                    #subtract to come up with the difference
                    $remainder = $currentTime - $fileTime;

                    if ($remainder > $time){

                         $cleanup = unlink("$Directory/$currentFile");
                    }//end if
            }//end if
    }//end while

}//end if

[eli03]

just use cron like TheDefender said. Butthead script only work if the page still open.