Re: Web friendly file names

You mean like this? This would work as a good file name to be on the server and link to? $filename = urlencode($_FILES['myfile']['name']); move_uploaded_file($_FILES['myfile']['tmp_name'], $filename); Think that would do the trick? Skip Eddie Drapkin wrote:

Why not just urlencode() the filename? (and suggest people use a URL shortening service and/or provide one) On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Richard Heyes <richard@php.net <mailto:richard@php.net>> wrote:

    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

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