Posted by Hendri Kurniawan on 12/20/06 02:49

I have the feeling that it's not because of the escape string.
If the string is already in a variable, PHP won't take account of the
escape sequence
(coz it's already escaped).
Anyway, PHP only escape strings that are surrounded by double quote (")
not single quote (')


Hendri



johnny wrote:
> I have the following code. What I need is to zip the file
> (c:\web\upload\someFile) to d:\web\someFile.zip.
>
> $cmd = 'c:\zip\zip.exe '. $movedFile. ' '. $finalFile;
> exec( $cmd, $cmd_output );
>
> File is being uploaded by the apache server, but it's not being zipped.
> My guess "\", escaping, is causing problem in windows path. Do I also
> have to escape the $movedFile content? Forexample $movedFile=
> "c:\web\upload\someFile".
>

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