Re: Character encoding hell

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Mari Masuda <mbmasuda@stanford.edu> wrote: > > On Oct 26, 2010, at 10:10 AM, Marc Guay wrote: > >>> A windows server, or windows client to the same Linux server? I believe that this issue >>> is starting to get a bit over my head, with the different operating systems involved and such. >> >> Windows server.  This is over my head, too.  I'm guessing that Windows >> and Linux encode filenames differently and when I transferred the file >> from one to the other, some kind of adjustment was made. >> >> Marc > > I think one way to do this is something like this (untested): > > 1.  Put all of your files in some directory on the server. > > 2.  Change your <a > href="http://example.com/encoded-file-name.pdf">my > file</a> to <a > href="http://example.com/download-file.php?fileID=xxx">my > file</a> where xxx is the urlencoded version of "encoded-file-name.pdf".  (xxx > could also be a fileID number if stored in a database.) > > 3.  In download-file.php do something like this: > > <?php >  $parent_directory = "/path/to/parent/directory/"; // can be in or out of web root >  if (file_exists($parent_directory . "encoded-file-name.pdf")) { >    $data = file_get_contents($parent_directory . "encoded-file-name..pdf"); >    $file_name_with_french_chars = rawurldecode("encoded-file-name.pdf"); > >    header("Content-type: application/octet-stream"); >    header("Content-disposition: Attachment; > filename=\"$file_name_with_french_chars\""); // this line assigns the > "nice" looking name as the file name >    echo $data; >  } > ?> > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > This approach is what I wanted to suggest as well. You can simulated a db with an XML file if you wanted to and even assign the IDs as numerical to make life really easy -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat