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Started by _*Creative Insanity_*, Mar 10 2007 02:33 PM

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#1 _*Creative Insanity_*

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Posted 10 March 2007 - 02:33 PM

I have looked at a heap of upload scripts on here and on alltheweb.com and as yet I have not found a solution.

I have done a upload script for members to upload wav and midi files, but at the moment I am having problems with the files.

What I am trying to do is strip the file path and just keep the name.
At the moment my script adds everything into the database and naturally that is going to cause a broken link when another member goes to preview the wav or midi file.

At the moment C:\blah\blah\sample.wav is being entered into the datanbase and I am trying to remove the c:\blah\blah\ and just have sample.wav edded to the database.
Anyone have any ideas on how to do this?
I have tried temp name, new name, but could not get it to work.

Ta muchly.

#2 Matthew.

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Posted 10 March 2007 - 02:59 PM

Best idea is to explode the file path/name using the slash as the delimiter and grab the last section, e.g...

$explode = explode('\', $file);

$filename = $explode[count($explode)];

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Posted 10 March 2007 - 03:15 PM

Ah huh! Thanks a million Matthew.. now why did this silly old bugger not think of that.
Worked a treat. Thanks heaps.

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Posted 10 March 2007 - 08:08 PM

... or basename();


// home/user/public_html/basename.php

echo basename(__FILE__); // basename.php

Edited by SecondV, 10 March 2007 - 08:08 PM.

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Posted 10 March 2007 - 09:21 PM

View PostSecondV, on Mar 11 2007, 01:08 AM, said:

... or basename();


// home/user/public_html/basename.php

echo basename(__FILE__); // basename.php
Using that function with windows file structures on a *nix environment is just going to cause a lot of trouble ;)

Having said that using my method with linux structure would cause the same problems.

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