hockey97

Hi, I have see websites like mega_upload. Where when you upload something they generate a URL customized for that individual. For example : people that use paypal to sell digital products. They have a PHP script where once after payment their server generates a customized URL to the file. This URL expires in a given week. If you didn't download it by then. You would need to pay again. Which would generate another customized URL. I have a website that has images and I want more security around images. I don't want the end user to clearly or easily know where the source is by looking the the webpages source code. I currently have a php file that grabs the image and renders it. This can prevent hot linking to a image and other stuff like un-authorized access to the images. However,this image still gets shared to authorized people. I just want to give the user more control over how the image can be used. I don't want people to easily download a copy of the image. If they know the source they can easily just download the image. I was told that I need to create a PHP script and uses apaches rewrite. The PHP file will grab all images and render them. I can then use this url as the images source. It gives me that 2 layer security where only authorized users can access them and the URL changes every time you load a page. So, you cannot know the original link. I plan to have a feature where the user can permit another user to download certain photos. I just want to add more security on images to prevent people from getting cyber bullied or other nasty things from the internet.