Re: uploaded file cleanup?
| From: | Matt McClanahan | Date: | Wed, 25 Oct 2000 22:38:46 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: uploaded file cleanup? | ||
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On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, John Damask wrote:
> Does PHP4 clean up uploaded files automatically?
> If I register $HTTP_POST_FILES to deal with on other pages, the array still
> exists but the files (in the temp dir) don't seem to. I can only guess that
> PHP deletes them at the end of a program. Is this true? Is there a setting
> to prevent this?
Yes, PHP deletes the temporary file after the script that processed it
finishes. And no, there's no reason to prevent it. If you want to keep
the file, you'll want to copy it somewhere.
Matt