Creating temporary links- How to?

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    Can anyone recommend a script that would enable creating temporary links; the ones that expire after a set period of time..?

    I need that in order to redirect buyers of my e-book to the temporary destination where they can download the ebook.

    Thanks all!
     
    nervo, May 11, 2007 IP
  2. T0PS3O

    T0PS3O Feel Good PLC

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    With PHP:

    if (time() < strtotime("May 31, 2007")) {
echo '<a href="http://mysite.com/temp.html">Buy book here until May 31st</a>';
}
else {
echo '<a href="http://mysite.com/buy.html">Buy book here after May 31st</a>';
}
    PHP:
     
    T0PS3O, May 11, 2007 IP
  3. nervo

    nervo Active Member

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    T0PS3O thanks, but that's not what I'm looking for....

    What I need is to send buyers to temporary location on the server where they can download file. That link would then expire in certain period of time.
    I want to avoid sending them to my permanent dir location...
     
    nervo, May 11, 2007 IP
  4. rgchris

    rgchris Peon

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    If you were able to use Shell scripts for this you could be done this in a snap...
     
    rgchris, May 11, 2007 IP