Re: uploading files with a single quote in the filename

neil@jansons.net wrote:

Thanks some answers: turning magic quotes on and off seemed to make no difference 1. single quotes aren't important to me but this application allows users to upload photos which often use descriptive filenames which sometimes have single quotes eg. "my mum's car.jpg". I replace the spaces with underscores but I can't get to the filename before the single quote and the text before it have been stripped. 2. the original filename is only important insofar as it often has descriptive information in it. 3. I can't really answer this question very well except to say that it happens in my development environment (IE6 on win2k with apache on win2k) as well as on my hosting server (IE6 on win2k and apache on linux).

you're a webdeveloper. please install firefox :-)

"Jochem Maas" <jochem@iamjochem.com> wrote in message news:421C7E1A.1050605@iamjochem.com... neil@jansons.net wrote:

Hi When uploading files using a type=file in a form, if a file is uploaded

with

a single quote the file gets truncated to whatever is after the quote eg. blah'sblah.txt will be uploaded as sblah.txt Is this a magic quotes issue?

I don't think so, test it by turning it on/off.

What is the best way to deal with it?

couple of questions: 1. are single quotes really necessary in filenames? 2. is the original filename really that important to you? 3. does this happen on just one browser/[client]platform? it could be a browser bug (i.e. it gets stripped on the clientside which would means thats its nothing to do with a PHP bug/setting/feature/misunderstanding/etc)

Neil