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Posted by lawrence k on 10/19/07 18:47
On Oct 18, 9:34 pm, Michael Fesser <neti...@gmx.de> wrote:
> .oO(lawrence k)
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> >On Oct 18, 8:38 pm, lawrence k <lkrub...@geocities.com> wrote:
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> >> I've got a client that is a music studio and they've several thousand
> >> mp3s that tend to have file names like this:
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> >> Adrian Orange - Bitches Is Lord - 13 - Don't Get Used To It.mp3
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> >> The quote mark in that file name is giving me trouble.
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> >> The music studio asked me to write a script that could read all the
> >> metadata out of their mp3s and then store the info in a database.
> >> Using the getID3 library, I've had an easy time with all the files
> >> that don't have quote marks in their names:
> >> [...]
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> >Oh, strange. Apparently I just needed stripslashes. That's all. So
> >weird.
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> I don't think so. You should only need stripslashes() if magic quotes
> are enabled (can be checked with get_magic_quotes_gpc()) to remove them.
> No magic quotes, no stripslashes().
I guess magic quotes were enabled. It's an old installation, from 3 or
4 years ago, so the server probably adheres to a lot of old practices.
Or maybe it has whatever defaults RedHat Linux shipped with 3 years
ago.
But I did hit the file name with stripslashes, and suddenly the code
worked.
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