RE: [PHP-WIN] problem to open dir

Good call.. With the ~1 and all. Using short filenames/paths might help sometime (when things have an issue with spaces in filenames). To get short filenames and paths, use the "dir /x" command at a command prompt. Also.. Regarding the \ only sometimes giving issues... It'll only give you a problem if it's followed by a letter or character that can be escaped. The ones I can remember off the top of my head would be \" \t \r \n and \' maybe. Basically anything that the following functions fix for you: Quotemeta() Addslashes() magic_quotes_gpc = On (in PHP.INI) I see some others mentioned in Pattern Syntax for regular expressions that I think are valid too: http://www.php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.syntax.php And probably some other stuff I forgot (or just don't know). I've used single backslashes for static file paths before and they worked ok, then I added an extra path that happened to have something like "C:\test" or something and the \t threw it off. So I just do \\ when I do file paths now... Just seems safer and less headache. Ugly but safer. -TG > -----Original Message----- > From: Armando [mailto:dijital@shaw.ca] > Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 12:58 AM > To: php-windows@lists.php.net > Subject: RE: [PHP-WIN] problem to open dir > > > Try changing your $dir variable to: > > $dir="C:\\Documents and Settings\\pravin\\Desktop\\abcd2"; > > Failing that, try using the Documents and Settings shortname: > > $dir="C:\Docume~1\pravin\Desktop\abcd2"; > > Or: > > $dir="C:\\Docume~1\\pravin\\Desktop\\abcd2"; > > If none of these work, perhaps also try them and replace the double > quotes that enclose the string to single quotes. > > I ran into a lot of issues myself when trying to access the windows > filesystem through PHP when using just single backslashes in my path > variables because, as Mike noted, the \ is typically used to escape > characters. In that case when PHP parses your $dir variable, > it could be > stripping out the \ thinking they are escaping the next characters. As > soon as I used the double backslashes in my $dir variables on my own > pages, everything worked fine. Mind you, I then got annoyed with some > other Windows related issues so blew away my development box and put > Linux on it instead :-) But I digress... > > Cheers. > > Armando