On 30 April 2011 22:07, Tim Streater <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Does it matter to PHP filesystem functions if a path/to/file/name contains spaces? IOW, is this handled OK by design or should I replaces such spaces by backslash-space or would doing that present problems?
>
> Thanks Â-- Âtim
On Windows, PHP will happily access files and directories with spaces...
<?php
file_put_contents('My name is Richard.txt', 'Hello Richard');"
?>
If you intend to pass the filename to a command line tool, then the
filename must be wrapped with double quotes ...
<?php
exec('tool.exe "My name is Richard.txt"');
?>
If you intend to pass the filename to a command line tool and the tool
has spaces in the name too, then you need to wrap both with quotes ...
<?php
exec('"C:\Program Files\tool.exe" "My name is Richard.txt"');
?>
If you are using a version of PHP before V5.3.0, please read
http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php#101579. Your code would
need to be ...
<?php
exec('""C:\Program Files\tool.exe" "My name is Richard.txt""');
?>
I've added some _ to that so you can easily see the single and double
quotes ... (they aren't part of the real code, just there to show you
the quotes) ...
<?php
exec(_'_"_"_C:\Program Files\tool.exe_"_ _"_My name is Richard.txt_"_"_'_);
?>
--
Richard Quadling
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