My website has got an area to upload files and make new folders and delete files or folders etc. I had a problem at the beginning where if a file or folder had spaces it would cause problems eg if the file name was "my folder" and was in my root upload directory, when you clicked on it to follow the link and get into the folder, it would just do nothing, I figured out that this was cause the link it was trying to open was /my and not /my folder, so I used preg_replace to replace any odd characters and spaces into underscores _ now this is not ideal for me, it works but I would rather be allowed the spaces, the other characters can be replaced if they must but spaces are a hard one to live without.

I hope someone can give an explanatory solution for this

Thanks

I'm guessing you've never worked with anything but Windows before? If you program you learn not to use spaces. Try this, go to Start > Run and type cmd to launch the command line, then type

cd C:\Program Files

It will complain because only the Windows GUI naturally works with spaces, you can use

cd 'C:\Program Files'

Just learn to save files with correct names. If you ever decide to code this will come into immense help. Also try not to use upper-case.

Originally Posted by Arenlor

I'm guessing you've never worked with anything but Windows before? If you program you learn not to use spaces. Try this, go to Start > Run and type cmd to launch the command line, then type

cd C:\Program Files

It will complain because only the Windows GUI naturally works with spaces, you can use

cd 'C:\Program Files'

Just learn to save files with correct names. If you ever decide to code this will come into immense help. Also try not to use upper-case.

I mainly use mac, however in this particular case yes, I am using a windoze machine for this site, and you are correct in what you are saying I agree 100%, however I cannot stop the space problem, as it is not me but all the clients that are using them, now as I said I can just replace the spaces with a more acceptable character like the underscore _, however the problem is that this is a printing company and the clients are designers using apps like quark, indesign, illustrator, photoshop or freehand, and most of the designs incorporate scans, when these scans are placed into InDesign for example they become links to external tiff or psd files and these external links have spaces in them more often than not, so if they upload a brochure to their respective client folder it loses all the spaces so when we reopen it on our side to enter into our workflow we have to relink all the images one by one, I was hoping that I could use something like urlencode, but I am fighting with it.

Thanks