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Spaces in filenames [message #173701]

Fri, 29 April 2011 23:00

Tim Streater
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Registered: September 2010

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When my app starts up, it discovers where it has been installed using:

$instdir = dirname (__FILE__);

Now, I have no control over where this might be in the file system, and
the user may well put it somewhere such that the path contains spaces.
I'm passing this round the app, and in the fullness of time may be doing
things like:

$fp = fopen ($instdir . "/wiggy", "r");

Does it matter to PHP filesystem functions if the filename contains
spaces?

But what's worse, I'll also be passing $instdir to shell scripts via
exec ().

Seems to me I can:

1) search/replace $instdir to escape spaces with backslash-space. But
does this mess up PHP filesystem functions?

2) leave $instdir as-is, but use escapeshellarg on it whenever I need to
pass it through exec().

Which is the better approach?

--
Tim

"That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed,
nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted" -- Bill of Rights 1689

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		Spaces in filenames By: Tim Streater on Fri, 29 April 2011 23:00
		Re: Spaces in filenames By: Robert Heller on Sat, 30 April 2011 01:26
		Re: Spaces in filenames By: Tim Streater on Sat, 30 April 2011 11:57
		Re: Spaces in filenames By: Eli the Bearded on Sat, 30 April 2011 06:57
		Re: Spaces in filenames By: Tim Streater on Sat, 30 April 2011 11:33
		Re: Spaces in filenames By: Jerry Stuckle on Sat, 30 April 2011 12:49

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