* Thus wrote Sophie Mattoug ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Joseph Szobody wrote:
>
> >I'm taking some user input, and creating a folder on the server. I'm
> >already
> >replacing " " with "_", and stripping out a few known illegal characters
> >(',
> >", /, \, etc). I need to be sure that I'm stripping out every character
> >that
> >cannot be used for a folder name. What's the best way to do this? Do I have
> >to manually come up with a comprehensive list of illegal characters, and
> >then str_replace() them one by one?
> >
>
> I think you should use the reverse solution : have a list of authorized
> characters and strip out all others ones.
I'd approach it the same way.
preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9_]/', '_', $dirname);
Curt
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