need some advice

[jscix]

Ok, what I want to know is, what is the best way to display a php generated image?

 

I have a script that generates the image but I need to display it on a page, so if I use a header command it will just redirect to the image without the page, correct?

 

So I made it generate a .JPG file, then print the HTML to display it, which works well EXCEPT, I want the script to delete the generated .jpg file after having either a successful form submission or a unsucessful form submission(And Generate a new one if form submission failed) which I got it to do..., BUT

 

the problem now is that if the user completly just LEAVES the page, without submitting at all.. the generated image stays in the directory.. which isn't a good thing.. How can I fix this? Any ideas?

[Clinger]

You could set up a cron job that clears out files dating older than a certain point.

[jscix]

Hrmm, I could.. I really want to make this script sulf-suffiecent though.

It isn't terribly important, as im just making this as a "learn by doing" kinda thing.

 

Thanks for the imput though, I think I just need to mess with it a bit more.

 

**bashes head on keyboard**

 

[arifsor]

put your php file path in html img tag

<img src="/dyn.php">

 

this display your generated pic.

[jscix]

Doh! Thanks alot!!!!!!

 

That saved me a migrain...