[SOLVED] PHP Pdf viewer

[kmachstang]

Hi All,

 

I am currently working on a project where I must have a custom built PDF viewer that runs server side. The way I thought of doing it was to use the ImageMagick convert command to convert the page of the PDF that the user wants into a JPEG and serve that image. The problem is I can't have thousands of Image files hanging around on the server. Can anyone either:

 

A) Tell me a better way of accomplishing what I need to do?

 

B) Give me some clever idea as to how to create a dynamic image from the PDF file?

 

C) Some idea as to how to delete the image after it is sent to the user?

 

 

Any guidance will be greatly appreciated,

Kyle

[kpesanka]

How about just generating the way you suggest, and having a cron job run however often you'd like to clean up the directory of images?

[kmachstang]

That method was what I was planning on doing, but I was hoping for a better solution. I fear that someone could flood the site with requests in a short period of time causing the site to create thousands of images and filling the hard drive.

[MadTechie]

Script to check the creation time & date of the image files, over 2 days old get deleted..

 

either that or something like

<?php
header("Content-Type: image/jpeg");
//ImageMagick pdf to jpeg
$img = imagecreatefromjpeg($imgname);
imagejpeg($img);
unlink($imgname);
?>

[BlueSkyIS]

i was thinking MadTechie's second suggestion: send the image to the browser without writing it to the drive.

[kmachstang]

Exactly What I was looking for, just wasn't sure how to handle it THANKS!!!!

[prime]

well thats not a matter of not saving it, unlink just deletes it after the browser has loaded it