Re: Displaying image paths with spaces

On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 23:40 -0500, Skip Evans wrote: > Hey all, > > I have a CMS system that uses the FCKeditor to allow users to > create directories in which to store images. FCK allows users > to create directories with spaces in them, and it's pretty > deep in the JavaScript code so modifying that is not a simple > option, so at this point I'm trying to work from the > assumption that the users will continue to be allowed to > create directory names with spaces. > > All that said, the CMS outputs data in two ways. I'll start > with the second method because it works and then move on to > the problem. > > What the user has created in the FCKeditor is a path to an > image that appears like this: > > src="/clients/client_118/images//Event%20images/Show%20ads/catspaw1compressed.jpg" > > Notice the '%20' codes for the spaces in the directory names > like 'Event images' and 'Show ads'. > > The first way the code is displayed is with an AJAX call. It's > read on the PHP side, echo'd back out to the JavaScript code > and inserted into an ID with an innerHTML assignment. This > method works. > > The first way the code is loaded is pure PHP. It's read from > the database just as it appears above and then echo'd back to > the browser. However, in the browser it appears like this: > > /clients/client_118/images//Event\ images/Show\ > ads/catspaw1compressed.jpg > > And of course the browser can't display the image with those > '\ ' combinations. > > So my task is to get it to display the image properly on the > pure PHP side the same way it does via the AJAX call. > > I should also say that the code the image path resides in > contains a text, etc, so it's a block of content, containing > both text and image paths. > > Is there a way to read and echo this on the PHP side and > preserve a properly displayable path like the AJAX call, but > that also won't interfere with the rest of the HTML and text > code contained within the block of content? > > I'm stumped on this one, so any help would be greatly, > wonderfully, blissfully even....... appreciated. > > Thanks, > Skip > -- > ==================================== > Skip Evans > Big Sky Penguin, LLC > 503 S Baldwin St, #1 > Madison WI 53703 > 608.250.2720 > http://bigskypenguin.com > ------------------------------------ > Those of you who believe in > telekinesis, raise my hand. > -- Kurt Vonnegut > How are you outputting those URLs? PHP won't just automatically converty '%20' to a '\ '. What is the raw URL format you're getting from FCKEditor? Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk