I was hoping to throw what I am trying to do out there to see if anyone could give me the best way of handling it. Basically, I have a custom pdf viewer that converts the desired page of the pdf to a jpeg on the server and then sends that image to the browser. The problem is I don't want these images hanging around. Can anyone think of a clever way to clean up the images rather than having a cron job delete them every 'X' minutes??

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add javascript code to your page which displays your images on body unonload to remove the picture.. then you will not have to delete every x minutes

Im not sure i understand completely. Are you saying have a javascript function wich executes on body unload which will output the image tag, and then how would i remove the picture???

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you will execute the java code on unload,

you assing the path and name of the picture to the javascript. it is simple. not so complicated

And I would just delete the image with php at the end of my function??

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yes, you know already what to do :)

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