NYCPHP Meetup

[Ajai Khattri]

On Wed, 28 May 2008, Kristina Anderson wrote:

> Hmm... I like this... if I copy the file to the web server I can name 
> the directory after their transaction ID....make unique directory for 
> each customer...then delete them after a day or so...we have lots of 
> room..is this doable on a shared host?  ...outside "public_html" is 
> outside the root, or no?

As someone else pointed out, you probably should NOT have Apache serve the 
PDF directly. Much better to generate a token that gets emailed to them 
when they checkout. During the checkout, you would need to make a record 
of the transaction and token. You will need to write a download script 
that takes the token, does some checks in your database and then returns 
the PDF directly with the correct MIME type.



-- 
Aj.