Re: moving

On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 17:13:24 -0800, Bryan wrote: >Hey all... > >I have a site where people have to pay for the pictures. He is a professional photographer and >does not want >people stealing his work. When they download and image, they pay for it. The problem with that >is, if >I have images named 001.jpg, 002.jpg, people can type that into the URL and get the other image >without >paying for it. Is there a way to rename a file once clicked on to download to eliminate this >from happening? > >So, the user clicks on the image, called from the database, have it renamed, and then delete it >from the database, >so they never see the real filename... > >I have thought of other ways to do this, but I was hoping there would be an easier way, such as >this, to do it. > >Thanks for the help! > > >Bryan Fitch One out of several ways to do it Store pictures in a database: http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/florian19991014.php3 You could have a purchased_pictures table that links user_id to specific pictures. Then, make a 'pictures you've purchased page' that only grabs pictures from pictures_table linked to that users id. Picture names won't matter anymore :) (note the section in that artice that discusses images over 1meg in size)