[SOLVED] help!! there must be a way..

[jmurch]

I got 1/2 of my earlier post answered, but this part is still a puzzle:

 

 

I am using the following to generate an xml doc to the users browser:

 

$fp = fopen("document.xml", 'w+');

$str = ($xml_frame->Fields('top_xml').$content->Fields('xml').$content->Fields('xml').$xml_frame->Fields('bottom_xml'));

fwrite($fp, $str);

fclose($fp);

header( 'Location: http://www.website.com/document.xml') ;

 

I would like to delete 'document.xml' after it has been loaded to the user's browser. Unlinking the file kills it before it loads and sleep hangs everything. I there a way to detect when it's finished downloading to the user?

 

Thanks

 

 

[btherl]

A standard method is:

 

1.  Generate a random name for each generated document

2.  Store them all in one directory

3.  Have a script run regularly that checks for old files (using fstat()) and deletes anything older than a fixed limit, say 1 hour.  You can run the script from cron, or have it run each time a user accesses a particular script.

 

That doesn't detect when the file is downloaded, because that's a very difficult task.