Misterious Double Slash

[Anon]

Hi,

i'm trying a FTP upload to a Linux box, via a HTML form ($file) and PHP (ftp_put)

Under Linux it goes fine but under Win2000, the
real path c:\folder\file.me gets transformed into c:\folder\file.me , and it crashes.

Any hint to why the slashes double? My research to date has been useless.

Thanks in advance

[Anon]

I could be wrong, but I believe magic quotes does this? check your php.ini file and make sure gpc_magic_quotes is set to "Off".

[Anon]

sorry, that's magic_quotes_gpc.

[[deleted]]

it should stay so.
try something like:
$file="c:\new\top\red.txt";
print $file;

[Anon]

The backslashes double because the backslash is an escape character in strings and if you want a real backslash it needs to be escaped (with a backslash!).

Use $file=stripslashes($file) to get rid of the extras; if you want to print it again, you'll want to addslashes() them back or as peio notes, you'll get weirdness.