My content management script is capable of including images and creating a seperate page with a link from headline page for posts longer than x. Thing is that all the posts are kept in one text file making the identification of files for cleanup trickier. The image files are named by users then cleaned up on upload and have the PID tacked on the end of the name. The html files created by the script are named by the date and time of creation plus the PID.

What I am thinking of doing is having the script write the name of each image and html file added to the server by the script to a seperate text file then using the entries in that file for regex searches of the headline page. If there isn't a match then the file of that name in /images or /pages will be deleted.

Questions:

• Does anyone see a major misjudgement in this outline?
• How can I make such a script run say once per month on different platforms? Should I plan to have the main script check dates and do clean up if it has been x days since it last ran?

Thanks for any advice!
jg
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