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You use move_uploaded_file() for this purpose:<br />
<a href="http://php.net/manual/en/function.move-uploaded-file.php" rel="ugc">http://php.net/manual/en/function.move-uploaded-file.php</a>
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You use move_uploaded_file() for this purpose:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.move-uploaded-file.php [http://php.net/manual/en/function.move-uploaded-file.php]

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Hi TeRReF,<br />
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Yes, I know about that function, but I was thinking about files that maybe fail to get moved, etc.<br />
Does that make sense ? Session data gets stored there too, doesn't it ?<br />
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Just looked into the server's tmp directory - there's a lot of session data but only very recent... But there are also some files there that are a couple of months old - one of them seems to be an image:<br />
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Oct 15 01:45 phpaMbFwY.jpg
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Hi TeRReF,

Yes, I know about that function, but I was thinking about files that maybe fail to get moved, etc.
Does that make sense ? Session data gets stored there too, doesn't it ?

Just looked into the server's tmp directory - there's a lot of session data but only very recent... But there are also some files there that are a couple of months old - one of them seems to be an image:

Oct 15 01:45 phpaMbFwY.jpg

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Hi! I was wondering how temporary files are handled when uploaded in php... Uploaded files are initially stored in the tmp directory - do they get automatically deleted or does it have to be done manually ? Is it done by php, do I have to write a script or is it done by the server periodically, e.g. Cron ?<br />

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Hi! I was wondering how temporary files are handled when uploaded in php... Uploaded files are initially stored in the tmp directory - do they get automatically deleted or does it have to be done manually ? Is it done by php, do I have to write a script or is it done by the server periodically, e.g. Cron ?


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