Help! Prohibited Filename - Illegal Characters

mokiman

I am a newbie and I love uploadify but I'm having a small problem. When visitors are uploading files many of the file names have apostrophes in them (e.g. "I'll Be There"). For some reason when I go to retrieve them the apostrophe ' gets replaced with a forward slash \ and I can't download them with my FTP client (Transmit) because it says the Filename is Prohibited. I try to rename them but it won't let me do that either.

So I've been going into my hosting control panel to rename them so I can download them.

Is there a way to preserve the apostrophes or just strip them out completely before uploadify writes them?

What would the code be? And where would I add or replace the code?

I don't know PHP or Javascript so please be patient and/or maybe include links to any references that I might need to study.

Thanks!

cardi777

Here is my hack for this


'onSelect'    : function(event,ID,fileObj) {
      		if(fileObj.name.search("'") >= 0  ||  fileObj.name.search('"') >= 0  ||  fileObj.name.search('/') >= 0  ||  fileObj.name.search("\'") >= 0 ){
			alert('The file "'+fileObj.name+'" was not uploaded because it has at least one invalid character.');
			return false;
		}else{
			return true;
		}
			
}

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