On Tue, May 15, 2007 12:53 pm, Emil Ivanov wrote: > Sorry to bother you, as I know you are quite busy, but I have a > problem and > maybe a elegant solution does not exist right now. > > The case is simple: > A user is allowed to upload files to the server, which are store in a > temporary location and their filenames are stored in the session.
Store the filename somewhere else as well? > The user leaves the site and the session gets destroyed, but the files > remain untouched. > If I can hook to the gc session function that will solve my case, but > currently with session_set_save_handler I have to rewrite session > handling, > which I don't need... You'd only need to override the session_destroy function, and, as I recall, you can override just ONE of the functions somehow... By passing in NULL for the other args to session_set_save_handler maybe? Or maybe that was just a proposal of how to do that... > So a simple hook will be very useful. A simple HACK and probably a Bad Idea would be to cron a walk through every session file and make an array of the files in user and then the directory of files uploaded hanging around and array_difference the two and nuke the unused files. Just be SURE you always set the $_SESSION var and call session_write_close *before* you move the file, or you'll end up with a race condition where you end up nuking a file that hasn't had its session data written to disk yet. Document the hell out of this if you do it, or you'll end up re-factoring and messing that race condition up, and you'll have an intermittent bug that appears mostly under heavy load, probably. [shudder] > I know there are problems as how will I know which entry has been > destroyed... Overriding the session handler is not all that hard, really, and probably the best available widely-understood idiom. -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
