Re: . becomes _ when submitting page

You can still do so. Just reverse the string. Replace the first occurance of "_" with ".". Re-reverse the string. Now you have a Filename. -- Scott Carr OpenOffice.org Documentation Maintainer http://documentation.openoffice.org/ Quoting Kjell Hansen <kjell.hansen@telia.com>: > Hmmm, I guess you're right. But I have some vague memories from useing dots > in name attributes before. But that was with ASP & IIS... > > I have some excuse for using dots, it's Windows filenames. They come with > dots and I can't change the attribute names because it's refering to the > file. I guess I will have to go around it with hidden fields and indexes... > Too bad, it was such a brilliant solution with the filename in the name > attribute > :( > > Anyway, thanx for enlightning me! > > Regards > Kjell > > Ignatius Reilly wrote: > > > Your naming conflicts with javascript. Remember what dots are used for in > > js. > > > > Avoid using other characters than alphanum and underscore. There is no > > reason you should need to use any other character. > > > > I am not quite even sure that it is valid HTML to use dots in attributes > > values. > > > > HTH > > > > Ignatius > > > > ____________________________________________ > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Kjell Hansen" <kjell.hansen@telia.com> > > To: <php-windows@lists.php.net> > > Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 7:12 PM > > Subject: [PHP-WIN] . becomes _ when submitting page > > > > > Hi, > > > In my HTML page I have a textarea called "filename.ext" when I submit > > > the page I get "filename_ext" in my $_POST array. > > > > > > Anyone know why?!??!? > > > > > > TIA > > > Kjell > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > > > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/