Re: $_POST issues with file paths

Thanks Mikey, had forgotten that. Works a treat. Mikey wrote:

You could try using forward slashes - they are functionally equivalent from a PHP point of view... Mikey

-----Original Message----- From: Jon Phipps [mailto:lordpuma@shaw.ca] Sent: 25 July 2003 19:13 To: php-windows@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP-WIN] $_POST issues with file paths Here is my problem I need to read a file path from this construct Base Path <input type="text" name="sys_path" value="e:\\jon\\site_dev\\php-html" size="40" maxlength="80"><br> however when I read it with $appath=$_POST["sys_path"]; what I get is e:\\\\\\jon\\\\\\site_dev\\\\\\php-html not what I am expecting which is e:\\jon\\site_dev\\php-html how can I stop the post method from escaping all my backslashes twice or do I have to write a routine that kills the surpluss ones? Jon -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php