Escaping Characters

jrockford

I have a problem with creating hyperlinks with filenames that contain apostrophe's or space in them such as a WORD document file with a weir'd name like tedm8'02.doc What happens when I try to create a link is that I get something like "tedm8" and that's it. However it puts the name in the databse just fine with the escaped charcters.

I've tried add slashes, stripslashes ..ereg .....etc, nothing seems to work. The problem is in this line of code, the link is not coming out of a database, it is being created on the fly. The database select code works fine when displaying file names as they are properly escaped.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I am pretty new to PHP so maybe this doesn't make sense.

Thanks
Ted M.

thefury

So you look in the database and the files stored like

tedm8\\'02.doc

and when you select it you stripslashes and the ' is gone?

Mega

you shudn't add slashes before adding data really, it will complicate things.

if your database entry is "hi's" and you echo it, then it will say "hi's"

if your text is:

$this = "hi's";
echo $this;

then it WILL be "hi's";

posting your code might help.

jrockford

Well I resolved this problem so easily, it makes me want to kick myself. The solution was basically to encode the URL using rawurlencode for the file link ....which takes care of whitespace which was causing the problem with the link. THe file was already properly escaped otherwise.