You probably need a cron job (available on any flavor of UN*X; Host restrictions not included) to run a check on weither or not posts are 7 (or more) days old. It all depends on how you'll be implementing it. I'd recommend a SQL backend (DBI would be nice). If you're gonna use plain files, stat is that nifty file stats function (and yeah -X has -M). if you want to play it safe, you can just ignore old(er) posts and only show newer ones (as in don't delete older posts).

Greetz
Beatnik
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In reply to Re: File expiration date by Beatnik
in thread File expiration date by Anonymous Monk

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