You could have a session variable which"
When you order/pay/whatever an image, is set to "canorder=1";
When you download an image, canorder can only==1, and is set back to
"canrdoer=0"
Something like that can be improved upon vastly, but this is my immediate
thought plan. Renaming files and stuff is a headache and performance hit.
Siggy
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From: "HDwebdev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "db" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] moving
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 17:13:24 -0800, Bryan wrote:
>Hey all...
>
>I have a site where people have to pay for the pictures. He is a
professional photographer and does not want
>people stealing his work. When they download and image, they pay for it.
The problem with that is, if
>I have images named 001.jpg, 002.jpg, people can type that into the URL and
get the other image without
>paying for it. Is there a way to rename a file once clicked on to download
to eliminate this from happening?
>
>So, the user clicks on the image, called from the database, have it
renamed, and then delete it from the database,
>so they never see the real filename...
>
>I have thought of other ways to do this, but I was hoping there would be an
easier way, such as this, to do it.
>
>Thanks for the help!
>
>
>Bryan Fitch
One out of several ways to do it
Store pictures in a database:
http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/florian19991014.php3
You could have a purchased_pictures table that links user_id to specific
pictures.
Then, make a 'pictures you've purchased page' that only grabs pictures from
pictures_table linked to that users id.
Picture names won't matter anymore :)
(note the section in that artice that discusses images over 1meg in size)
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