Posted by Good Man on 05/14/07 18:09

"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> wrote in
news:0KM1i.15246$yM2.5488@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net:


> Though it would likely be much easier if you were to strip out all
> characters except alpha, numeric, and the underscore prior to storage
> (file and database entry). Perhaps replace spaces with underscores.


I agree. Here's what I use to "clean" the filenames of all uploaded
files:


function cleanFile ($filename) { //clean up the file name

$filename = str_replace(" ","_",$filename);
$filename = str_replace("\\","",$filename);
$filename = str_replace("/","",$filename);
$filename = str_replace("|","_",$filename);
$filename = str_replace("'","",$filename);
$filename = str_replace("\"","",$filename);
$filename = str_replace("","",$filename);
$filename = str_replace("`","",$filename);
$filename = str_replace("*","",$filename);
$filename = str_replace("$","",$filename);
$filename = str_replace("%","percent",$filename);
$filename = str_replace("^","",$filename);
$filename = str_replace("!","",$filename);
$filename = str_replace("@","",$filename);
$filename = str_replace("?","",$filename);
$filename = str_replace(":","",$filename);
$filename = str_replace(";","",$filename);
$filename = str_replace(",","",$filename);
$filename = str_replace("<","",$filename);
$filename = str_replace(">","",$filename);

$filename = strtolower($filename);
return $filename;

}

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