RE: [PHP] Need help...silly customer

What I would do is put client-side validation in the input form that rejects the input if there are any invalid characters in it and puts up an error message instructing the user of the appropriate rules for creating file names. If the user has a problem with that, talk to her gently and use really general language like "the computer doesn't like those kind of characters and that makes the site break." Kathleen Bennett Web Developer / Chase Bobko, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Shane McBride [mailto:php@riversidedesigns.net] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 1:26 PM To: Php-General Subject: [PHP] Need help...silly customer 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