A multiple URI question

The second option, but with a table set up so that you add a new row for each one, not a new column if you start exceeding a certain number

OK
So, lets say you have a downloads table. It has an ID, a name, maybe filesize, number of downloads, etc.
Then you would create a download_uris table. That would have at least two columns, one being the ID of the download in the downloads table and the other being the URI.

Just been having a look. That method will work with hardly any alteration on the actual download script.

The admin script will be slightly more work. That one works roughly along the same lines as the admin_forums script, (which it's derived from). If I create an id column in that new table, (along with the download_uri and download_id columns), with an incrementing count, that will also allow me to keep them in order of how they were entered, (and hence their priority), when looping through them, if I actually create the entries in order of preference too, will it not?

So that I could order them to suit?

Could I just ask one last question? If I had something along the lines of the following:

<input type="text" name="alternates['.$cur_uri['id'].']"

would that, when I extract the _POST['alternates'] array, give me keys in the array which match those original id's, or would the keys in the post array be sequential?

Thanks once again.

Cheers.

That's the route I've gone down too. Just a few little tweaks and checks to make, and then it should hopefully be ready for testing.

Just on a related note, is there a way to define the maximum amount of time that a single command can run, before being terminated? On the loop script for the multiple URI's, it does a fopen just to check that the file is available and the server is responding/accepting connections. If there are several URI's, I'd prefer to limit it to X seconds per location, to counter problems such as DNS not resolving and such, which could cause things to take a while otherwise.