note 90248 deleted from function.tempnam by danbrown

Note Submitter: Security conscious ---- Warning! Many of the suggestions in the other posts here for "custom" tempfile or tempdir creation using this routine contain race conditions which open a system up to security problems. If you need a tempfile with a specified suffix inside of a php script, and you happen to be using a Linux server, you can simply use: exec('/bin/tempfile -s .pdf', $result); $tmpfile = $result[0]; Similarly, if you need a tempdir and you are using a Linux server, try: exec('/bin/mktemp -d', $result); $tmpdir = $result[0]; It may not be as elegant as using a pure php approach, but you can count on this being secure.