Re: problem generating a file link

There's nothing wrong with this. It's standard. I believe the logic of this is that the first two forward slashes represent the standard protocol indicator: http://, ftp://, file://, while the final forward slash represents a directory off the root directory, as a carry over from unix /tmp, /bin, /usr, etc. George Pitcher wrote:

Jochem,

I have tried variations on the following: $storelink = "<a href=\"file://G:\\".$filename.".pdf\" target=\"_blank\">PDF</a>"; and the link keeps coming out as: file:///G:/575991.pdf

is that what the browser (let me guess: IE) is interpreting the link as or is that what is literally in the html source?

I'm using Smarty so the link doesn't appear as HTML as such. This is what the browser (guessed wrong - I'm using Firefox) shows in the status bar. George

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