Auto-delete database entry after user defined time?

Asked Oct 19 '16 at 21:23

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So I'm making a Pastebin kind of a thing in PHP (ran on an Ubuntu server with Apache and MySQL). The user uses an HTML form to paste in whatever they want (+ a title in a separate input box) and I want to give the user the option to have their paste automatically deleted after a time they get to choose from a selection in a dropdown box.

How can I do that?

asked Oct 19 '16 at 21:23

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write a script that checks the deletion time in the columns, and [execute it periodically with cron](http://askubuntu.com/questions/2368/how-do-i-set-up-a-cron-job#2369). – Jeff Puckett Oct 19 '16 at 21:25
dupe: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1268044/cron-jobs-or-php-scheduler – Marc B Oct 19 '16 at 21:29
@JeffPuckettII Will look into this. Thanks. – index.php Oct 19 '16 at 21:29

Auto-delete database entry after user defined time?

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