Re: Web friendly file names

Hi, > I have a file uploader module that allows users to upload documents and of > course people are using all kinds of file names that are not web friendly. > > I guess the best solution is to replace any non alphanumeric with maybe '_' > the underscore? How does that sound? > > Unfortunately, after 20+ years of coding I cannot get my brain around > regular expressions to any decent level of proficiency, I know sad. > > I'd like to hear other solutions for this problem, I am thinking of a regexp > that replaces special chars with the underscore; sounds pretty robust and > globally acceptable? I replace any non alpha chat with a hyphen, then replace two or more hyphens with one. Simple, but I would also include the date so that naming clashes are less likely (if it's applicable). So you might end up with something similar to this: /product/2009/06/03/24ct-gold-earrings Or if using the date is not applicable, you could get something like this: /product/24ct-gold-earrings -- Richard Heyes HTML5 graphing: RGraph (www.rgraph.net - updated 23rd May) PHP mail: RMail (www.phpguru.org/rmail) PHP datagrid: RGrid (www.phpguru.org/rgrid) PHP Template: RTemplate (www.phpguru.org/rtemplate) PHP SMTP: http://www.phpguru.org/smtp