RE: [PHP] ie problem with file upload

Here's what I do to get a nice filename from an uploaded file: /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // clean_path: strip path information and illegal ///////// // characters from a filename ///////////////////////////// /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /* Returns a legal filename w/o path info. */ function clean_path ($path) { return ereg_replace("[:*?\"<>|]", "", basename(str_replace('\\', '/', $path))); } Note that this will only give you dogfood.txt, not blabla\woogy\dogfood.txt or something similar. Because it only gives you the filename, you can put it in whatever directory you want, without having to worry about creating the extra directories specified (which you usually don't want, anyway). (It's probably better to use an ereg() to match valid characters instead of the ereg_replace() that I used to get rid of illegal characters, but this is an intranet environment, where the name of the game is flexibility and development time, not security.) --Bruce Bruce Christensen Intel Corporation brucex.r.christensen@intel.com -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Beckford [mailto:kbeckford@bigorbit.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 2:07 PM To: GPHP Subject: [PHP] ie problem with file upload When I upload a file with netscape - everything is fine and dandy, When I do the same with IE, I get a filename in the form C:\\blabla\\woogy\\dogfood.txt What causes this, and what is the solution? ______________________________________ Kevin Beckford Programmer Big Orbit - Specializing in new media for youth www: http://www.bigorbit.com email: kbeckford@bigorbit.com [t] 416.516.0705 [f] 416.516.9256 "Intelligence is a tool used achieve goals, however goals are not always chosen wisely..." -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net