Re: Need help...silly customer

str_replace('#','',$image_name); That'll teach her to mess with a coder that has complete control over her application ;) --Joe On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 04:26:17PM -0500, Shane McBride wrote: > OK, I have the customer from hell here. I created a script for her that allows her to add > featured items, including an image. > > I tested it pretty well, except that all the images that the php script uploads has no special > characters. So, she uploads an image that has a special character in the name and the image link > won;t work. Of course. > > what happens is that the image uploads and puts a time stamp in front of it. I thought that was > nice since she could have duplicate image names. > > At this point the whole name is written to the database with the proper spaces and special > characters. > > When the file is moved to the correct directory by the script, the name is maintained with the > spaces and special characters. > > The problem is the number sign she insists on using!!!! She wants to name them "Sofa > #184-8.JPG". > The browser must interpret the # sign as something else. I can not remember the name of that. > > Is there a way around this? > > TIA, > Shane > ================================================================================ = Joe Stump joestump98@yahoo.com http://www.miester.org = ================================================================================ "Real programmers don't comment their code. It was hard to write, it should be hard to understand."