Esacping spaces and other special chars

[rosscarlson]

Ok, first I know all about addslahes. I say that because I think that's where most people will send me and that's not it...

Ok, here's my issue. I'm generating a command line so I can shell out and exec zip to create a zip file. There may be other ways to do that, but I still would like to know how to do this.

The issue is that if the directory name looks like this

/home/user/directory with space & that in it/test directory's

and I add slashes it only escapes the ' like this:

/home/user/directory with space & that in it/test directory\'s

My question is what function would escape all the spaces and other special characters (like the &) I can write s replace function to do it, but I have no idea what all the characters I'd need to replace for would be (like & and maybe #, etc).

I just know there is a function for this but I can't find it. Remember I'm at the command line so htmlentites, etc won't do it...

Thanks,

Ross

[rosscarlson]

Ok, actually here's what I came up with:

addcslahes...

I used it like this:

$slash_vars = '&\ !@\$^()`{}[]\;\=\'\"';

$fileName = addcslashes($fileArray[1]. "-". $fileArray[2], "$slash_vars"). ".zip";

The only down side is I created a directory name with every character I had on my keyboard to see what I had to escape and I came up with the above. Not pretty, so is there a better way?

Thanks again,

Ross