08072005 0952 GMT-5 http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.ereg.php
Wade On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 14:44 +0000, Marian Briones wrote: > I have a function where users can upload their photos to a photo area. > I can't seem to find a good way to strip unwanted characters out of > the filename. I also need this to work when they are choosing a > username for their webspace. > > It is coming in off a form submission. I don't want any spaces, and > alpha numeric characters only. For the filename of the photo, I know > I can just copy that up to the server with an identifier, but for the > incoming username on the form, I already had someone thinking they > were smooth by putting in a URL like www.theircompany.com for their > desired webspace name. No no no. I want to make sure the .'s are > stripped out of there and if they have spaces or characters like #!$@ etc. > > WHat is the syntax to do this? And what function? ereg_replace? > > I hope I am clearer than I have been in the past at explaining what it > is I want to do. > > Thank you... > > Marian > > > > > > > Community email addresses: > Post message: [email protected] > Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Shortcut URL to this page: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-list > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hb57a2k/M=362329.6886308.7839368.1510227/D=groups/S=1705005703:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1123433537/A=2894321/R=0/SIG=11dvsfulr/*http://youthnoise.com/page.php?page_id=1992 ">Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back!</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Community email addresses: Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shortcut URL to this page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-list Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
