Users don't log in. Really only one person is wanting some img files. Just my brain started spinning and thought I could do it this way to learn something in the process. If I wind up making something usefull that I or other people would want to use again later, great! I was wanting to make unique names, though, just because that would mean learning how to do something, and because someday if the code is good it might be used in a more trafficed scenario.

I thought letting users delete the file themselves could make for some big security holes, and there are also lazy users out there. I just didn't know that I could make the script delete the file, but it seemed like something I should be able to do (yep, I'm still quite the newbie!)

Thanks,
Petras
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

-Howard Aiken

In reply to Re: Re: Non-Duplicate File Names, Security, and Self Cleaning by Petras
in thread Non-Duplicate File Names, Security, and Self Cleaning by Petras

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