Posted by Jason Wong on 02/24/05 10:27

On Thursday 24 February 2005 16:14, Frank Arensmeier wrote:

> 1) replace ".." with a string like "file://server/folder"
> 2) replace all "\" characters with "/".
>
> The PHP code looks something like:
>
> $path_to_file = "..\1 PDF Filer\65051.PDF";

$path_to_file = '..\1 PDF Filer\65051.PDF';

Don't use double-quoted strings unless you *need* to. Ditto for the rest
of your code.

> The big problem is the character "\" which, if I got it right, in
> UNICODE is used for things like expressing line breaks ('\n' or
> something like this).

"\n" is a newline character, however it has nothing to do with unicode,
RTFM for details.

> The code above is resulting in the following
> error massage: "Parse error: parse error, expecting `')'' in
> /xxx/xxx/xxx/TMPz06yoces6o.php on line 2."

Switch to using a decent syntax highlighting editor and these types of
errors will be immediately obvious.

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