Posted by dkirkdrei on 09/22/07 22:01

On Sep 22, 3:43 pm, gosha bine <stereof...@gmail.com> wrote:
> dkirkd...@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> > the code:
>
> > <?
> > $var = "\\wusais\Intranets\Intranets\fpdb\pdf\weinig\00505882.pdf";
> > echo strtr($var, array('\\' => '\\\\'));
> > ?>
>
> > produces this:
>
> > \\wusais\\Intranets\\Intranets\\fpdb\\pdf\\weinig 05882.pdf
>
> > close but the end is still killing me...
>
> If the string is coming from DB as you have said, you shouldn't be
> assigning it to $var, but fetch it from the database instead, like this:
>
> $rc = mysql_query("SELECT .....");
> $row = mysql_fetch_array($rc);
> $var = $row['fieldname'];
>
> echo strtr($var, array('\\' => '\\\\'));
>
> --
> gosha bine
>
> extended php parser ~http://code.google.com/p/pihipi
> blok ~http://www.tagarga.com/blok

Ok, I appreciate all the feed back but maybe I need to post exactly
what I am trying to accomplish.
My variable is coming from a select statement out of a Access db via
an ODBC connection. As it stands right now, I am
using the following code:

<form method="post" action="<?echo $dwg;?>" target="_blank">
<td><p align="center"><button name="open" value="none"
type="submit">open</button></td>
</form>

the variable $dwg is my windows file path that is structured like "\
\wusais\Intranets\Intranets\fpdb\pdf\weinig\00505882.pdf";
this code works fine, the user clicks the button and a new window
opens displaying the file. I would like to control the window that the
file is opened in so I have to pass the php variable over to
javascript. If I pass it directly to the code below without doubling
the slashes, the file does not open. I have manually doubled the
slashes on a couple of the records in the db and everything works
fine.

javascript code that takes the place of the code posted above:

<form>
<input type="button" onclick="javascript:window.open('<?echo $test;?
>','window','width=800,height=600,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=no,toolbar=no')"
value="open">
</td>
</form>

so either I have to change all the records in the db or somewhere
between the db and the javascript the slashes have to be doubled??

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