Replacing spaces in file and variable

genista

Hi,
I have a page that uploads an image to a folder and sets the value in the database. What I need is when renaming the file to remove any spaces or 'bad' characters. I am guessing that if I do this for the imagefile then the variable that gets posted to the database will be rid of these as a result (which I guess solves half my problem from the title)...

Here is the code:

if ($_FILES['imagefile']['type'] == "image/gif"){ 

copy ($_FILES['imagefile']['tmp_name'], "files/".$username.$_FILES['imagefile']['name'])  

    or die ("Could not copy"); 

echo "";  

        echo "Name: ".$_FILES['imagefile']['name']."";  

        echo "Size: ".$_FILES['imagefile']['size']."";  

        echo "Type: ".$_FILES['imagefile']['type']."";  

        echo "Upload Complete...."; 



	$image1 = $username.$_FILES['imagefile'] ['name'];
	echo "$image1"; 

	$query = "UPDATE `suppliers` 
          SET `image1` = '$image1' WHERE `username` = '". mysql_real_escape_string($_SESSION['username']). "' 
          LIMIT 1";
		  $result = mysql_query($query, $link) or die('Update failed: ' . mysql_error()); 
etc, etc

Thanks,

NogDog

You could do something like this to change anything that is not a letter, digit, underscore, or period into an underscore (or whatever else you'd like them to be):

$filename = preg_replace('/[^\w.]/', '_', $filename);

genista

Great I will give it a go. Thanks!