Re: Hebrew Directory Names

On 5/28/09 2:06 PM, "Nitsan Bin-Nun" <nitsan@binnun.co.il> wrote: > i have tried this: > > <?php if (!defined('THROUGH_INDEX')) die('Sorry mate!'); >> >> $default_locale = setlocale(LC_ALL, 'en_US.UTF-8'); >> ini_set('default_charset', 'UTF-8' ); >> >> >> $_GET['folder'] = >> >> preg_replace("/([\xE0-\xFA])/e","chr(215).chr(ord(\${1})-80)",$_GET['folder'] >> ); >> >> $dirname = >> $config['walls_dir'].$_GET['folder']."/".$_GET['filename']; >> >> >> if (!is_file($dirname)) { echo "leave();"; g($dirname);die;} >> > > > I'm still getting: > >> leave(); >> >> string(56) "/home/nitsanbn/public_html/iphoneia/walls/חלל/008.jpg" >> >> > The preg_replace() above convert the Hebrew chars into UTF8. > The conversion does work but the file is not recognized as a file, although > that i can browse it straightly. why do you think that you need to do any conversion at all? that preg_replace looks terrifying! how did you come by it? i'm immediately suspicious that this is the problem. i googled the code and found people claiming that it translates window-1255 to utf8 (2004, dubious) and iso-8859-1 to utf-8 (2005, dubious). if you know that the browser is sending the GET variable 'folder' in a known encoding other than utf8, why not convert it with mb_convert_encoding or iconv? alternatively, force the user agent to send it in utf8 by sending the form as utf 8 (send header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8'), and use accept-charset="utf-8" in the form tag) and don't convert. then you can avoid all conversions. > I'm afraid that I don't have access to the php.ini, since it's a shared > hosting, do you know if hostgator gives access to php.ini or let you changes > it's values? i have no idea. but i imagine it is sufficient to use ini_set().