Simple file hosting: storing and issuing files, how best to implement?

Question

PHP

I am making a simple file hosting service that will be used by about 50-100 people (if this clarification affects something) or even if no one will use it, so that it would not be a shame to put it on github and use it as one of the projects for the portfolio.
I don’t know how to correctly implement the storage of files and their issuance to the user: when a file is uploaded, it is moved to a separate folder and stored there for n number of days, then a link to download this file is entered into the database.
To get a file, the user enters a link, the database checks whether there is a link to this file, and if successful, the file is returned else nothing happens.
Am I thinking right? Or can it be implemented somehow differently, for example, somehow more competently?

Answer 1

Well, this does not pull on a project for a portfolio, since there is less than an hour of work with Google.
You can make it harder. Make simple links and links with an additional password, attach several types of files - which will be deleted in a day, a month, a year. Maybe even tie monetization for training.
Fasten a virus check through some API thread.
Attach comments to the file.
In general, what you wrote is about 10 lines of code so far.