Re: Delete a file immediately after download

From: Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 00:28:20 +0000
Subject: Re: Delete a file immediately after download
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Shaun wrote:
Hi Marek, Thanks for your reply, could you tell me how I would go about this please? "Marek Kilimajer" <lists@kilimajer.net> wrote in message news:42127AFF.4090705@kilimajer.net...
Shaun wrote:
Hi, I have a database that contains encrypted data using Mysql function ENCODE(). Certain users will be allowed to view this data and I will allow them to download a CSV file contain the decrypted data using the Mysql DECODE() function. However I don't want this file to be left on the server, is there a way to ensure that the file is deleted immediately after it has been downloaded?
Don't put the file to a file at all, simply output the right header and echo the content.
$csv contains the result of the mysql decode() function, then: header('Content-Type: text/x-csv'); echo $csv; That's it :)

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