An crazy error with Is_Dir & Open_dir

[blackkrusty]

Hi i have a serious problem,

My sript receive $path by POST method when starting

$path=$_POST['path'];

[well, $path is a correct folder on my computer.]

and then if i try theses functions :

echo is_string($path); the result is 0 (bad) and
$handle = opendir($path); make an error (path is not a folder).

but
echo "<br> my path is :".$path; return the value wich is good :
C:\phpdev\www\public\viruscan

And when i become crazy, it is when i put on the top off my sript
the following instruction :
$path="C:\phpdev\www\public\viruscan";
The sript works fine....

So i don't understand where is the problem. I think there is a mistake, but where ?

thanks for your help guys!

[EviL_CodE]

Are you actually posting form data to the server?

[jpmoriarty]

do bare in mind that "\" is the escape character in php - if you want to refer to the actual character "\" then you have to escape it out first:

C:\phpdev\www\public\viruscan

[blackkrusty]

Hi again,

thanks for answers. Anyway escaping the character "\" don't
resolve the problem.

I will see that later, when i will have more time.