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 Posted by shimmyshack on 05/14/07 00:28 
On May 13, 11:25 pm, Alfred Molon <alfred_molonCAN...@yahoo.com> 
wrote: 
> In article <1179093340.453709.241...@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>, 
> matt.fa...@gmail.com says... 
> 
> > alfred, i use php uploads with single quotes just fine, it copes with 
> > a large range of characters including single quotes. 
> > you say "the uploads dont work properly" but I am unclear as to what 
> > that means, where does the process fail? I just think it's a coding/ 
> > config issue, the actual upload functionality will remain completely 
> > unaffected - if your system is set up properly. 
> 
> It's a shared host and I can not set the system. 
> 
> In any case what happens, is that the image will upload and be stored in 
> the temporary , but then the PHP code will mess up the filename. 
> 
> For instance, if I upload the file "Al Azhar's mosque Cairo.jpg" (with 
> the apostrophe), the PHP code will automatically convert the filename to 
> "Al Azhar\'s mosque Cairo.jpg" (i.e. insert a backslash) and store a 
> file named "Al Azhar\'s mosque Cairo.jpg" in the temporary directory. 
> 
> Then for misterious reasons it will convert the filename to "Al Azhar 
> \\\'s mosque Cairo.jpg" (i.e. insert two more backslashs). This happens 
> after the filename has been passed as a POST parameter to another 
> script. 
> 
> Perhaps I should process the filename with rawurlencode or htmlentities 
> before passing it as a POST parameter to the other script. 
> -- 
> 
> Alfred Molonhttp://www.molon.de- Photos of Asia, Africa and Europe 
 
this is "magic quotes" a waste of time, and kinda dangerous. 
you can use stripslashes to remove the slashes, 2 more come because 
once there is one, it is seen by the next function along and gets 
preserved, how do you preserve a backslash? you add 2 backslashes, one 
to escape the original one, and a second to escape the 2nd to show 
that it is to be interpreted as "real" 
As I say this is a config issue, you can probably set magic quotes to 
off using ini_set, which I recommend, you are then responsible for 
filtering and managing user input, but at least it becomes more 
predictable.
 
  
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