period in string...

[michaelk]

in some admin forms i have made for a music reviews system, i have provided an image upload script, i want to give the image a defult name of the band and album with no spaces / special characters which i have adequetly done below. the problem comes when i try to ad the .jpg onto the end of the string, the " . " is being read as something else i think.. and i'm not quite sure how to get around it. does anyone have any ideas how to tag the period on and adequately add .jpg to the end of the name ?

$new_img = $band;
$new_img .= $album;
$new_img .= ".jpg";
$new_img = preg_replace('/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/', '', $new_img);
copy("$new_rev_img", "/home/path/to/images/music/$new_img")
  or die("couldn't copy image");

thanks so much !!

[cgraz]

Try replacing that with this

$new_img = $band . $album . ".jpg";
print $new_img;

and checking what that prints. By printing the variable, you'll atleast know what it's doing so you can solve your problem.

Cgraz

[xblue]

not sure I understand what you are doing. first you add '.jpg', but after that you strip off anything that is not alphanumeric, thus removing the period.

maybe you'd want to do it the other way round?

[diego25]

Maybe you want this:

$new_img = preg_replace('/[^{a-zA-Z0-9.]/',} '', $new_img);

That will include the period in the allowed chars. You have to escape it 'cause the period is a special char in regexps.

Diego

[michaelk]

hahaha !

thank you!

i just put the .jpg in the wrong place ! it should be AFTER i strip the spaces and special charcters, duh !

thanks for your help, everyone.