Getting private files or showing private images in a HTML page

Question

I wonder how to publishing private user files but in the way only that user can access it. I mean, after logging in, there would be many files that only the

Answer 1

There are many solutions. The one I am using for a dating site is to have folder names that are the same as the unique reference for the user. All files in there belong to that user. However access is still controlled by php providing the correct links in the html.

That is the simplified answer. because I don't want the number of sub-folders in the image folder to be in the thousands, I hash them into another level of folders.