PHP :: A Varabile Input In To A File Add Too Many Spaces

Spaces In Input Field
I'll give an example of the problem. Someone comes and fills a text field with thier details, like thier address, but they make a mistake and press the space button twice or more between their words. When it echos the words out you cant tell the mistake because the html makes it look 'ok'. But if the input is sent to the database it has spaces between the words.

Is there a way to make sure that only one space is kept between the words before it goes in the databse? I dont want it to say error and make the people fill the form again, i want the script to fix the error.

Explode Input Then Add Them On By On With Spaces
still not getting my search right trying something else, i have explode on the input, setting them to diffrent values, no i do a normal query with the last value if not found loops and the adds the 3rd value with the 4th value " remeber space in between, then run the same query, is there any other easier way..havent ran it yet, just want to get the explode to add automaticly the amount of input words " hotels new york" so

$words = addslashes(str_replace($removal_strings, "", $_POST["inputTxt"]));
$find = explode(" ", $words);

$find1 = $find[0]; // hotels
$find2 = $find[1]; // new
$find3 = $find[2]; // york

then i run my query anything like the last word....get nothing, works on exact match, "like" no i wanne loop if nothing is found and then add $find2 and $find3 together and then do my query again, because if the input is only new york is should also work, then i can filter the records found in new york and look for the first input "hotels", then is should work perfectly, any ideas.
i know exactly what i want to do but dont know how.

Spaces In <input Text> Boxes.
When I submit a form where a user has typed a space into the input box, then check that value in the action .php file, only the text before the first space is displayed. How can I get all of the text sent?

eg

Code:
<form name="form2" method="post" action="temp.php">
<input type="text" name="name">
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
</form>

Then in temp.php
Code:
echo "Username = $name";

If the user enters "Greg Bennet" into the text field, I get back "Username = Greg".

Trimming Extra Spaces From Large DB File
Hi, I need some advice on what to do. I have this MySQL insert file,
with about 30,000 records. One of the datafields has names in it. When
this list was put together, apparently there was extra space formatting
inserted at the end of each name. I want to remove these, so for
example:

INSERT INTO `table_one` VALUES ('John Doe ', 1);
INSERT INTO `table_one` VALUES ('Jane Doe ', 2);
INSERT INTO `table_one` VALUES ('Baby S. Doe ', 3);

I want:

INSERT INTO `table_one` VALUES ('John Doe', 1);
INSERT INTO `table_one` VALUES ('Jane Doe', 2);
INSERT INTO `table_one` VALUES ('Baby S. Doe', 3);

I was thinking some kind of script could be put together to trim the
extra spaces out. I have this entire insert list as a text file and can
re-insert it, or leave it in the DB and run queries against it. What
complicates this for me is some of the name fields have middle names,
some do not. Maybe something to remove all spaces greater than one on a
first pass, and then on a second pass trim the extra space at the end
only. That is what I think of in theory - but have no idea how to
create such script.

Function Popen And Spaces In The Path Or File Name
Have a problem with spaces in the function popen
Next example works fine:
....
$drive="c:";
$path="";
$file=" myfile.exe">";
$call = $drive.$path.$file;

pclose(popen('start /b '.($call).'', 'r'));

.....
Using "Program Files" in the path name
$path=" Program"> Files"; (error: "c:Program ... " not found)
or
$path=" Program Files">"; (error: "c:Program%20Files ... " not found)

Displaying File Path In File Input Field
i have file input field in a form like this:
<input name="isbn" type="text" size="25" value="<?php echo
$_POST['isbn'] ?>" />
<input name="image" type="file" size="25" value="<?php echo
$_FILES['image']['name'] ?>" />

when i press "submit" button, the same page gets loaded... if my
$_POST['isbn'] is empty, i want to have the file path on "file input
field" to redisplay on that same field... it's possible in text input
field but i don't know of a way to do it in file input fields...

Multiple File Upload From Client Pc To Server Without Using <input Type="file"> Cont
I am working on a application which requires me to upload the contents of all the files from a particular folder in clent pc to the server.

In my code i just want to mention the folder name which may contain any number of files.Folder name will always be fixed.
I dont want to use <input type=file > control.

Is there any way i can achieve this using FTP or any other way in PHP.Any help will be greatly appreciated.

No Input File Specified Error
My server is Win2003 with php 5.2. Basic webroot is pointed to
c:inetpubwwwroot. When I execute php scripts in this dir, it is working
fine.

I configured a virtual directory in IIS onto different drive,
D:WebsitesNewDir, and copied some php scripts. When I run those php
scripts, in virtual directory, it is showing "No Input file specified"
error. How to get the scripts in vir dir running?

Input Type = File
If an input field of type 'file' is left blank, what is returned as the varible? I'm having a problem, I have two file fields and want to be able to do the following:

1. Put in the $file1_name and $file2_name (if there was a file uploaded) into a database so I can reference it later.

2. Copy the uploaded file (if, in fact, there was a new one uploaded) to a directory.

3. Later on, if someone wants to edit that entry and wants to upload a new file for the 2nd slot, or 1st for that matter or delete a file, it should do that with no difficulty.
I'm running into problems when it reaches the 'if' clause. I've tried:

if ($var){
and
if($var != ''){

and no matter what, for some reason these blank file fields alwasy evaluate true to my if statements, so I get an error like 'can't open file 'none' for blah blah'.

No Input File Specified Error.
I have PHP 5 installed with IIS 6. Currently there is only one website that's using PHP at the moment, so I went ahead and enabled PHP for another website, but whenever I try to access this new website that's using PHP, I get a message saying "No input file specified."

I don't know what could be causing this error, I tried doing a Google search and I found that there are a lot of people getting this same error message but I could not find any solution for it. Does anyone know how to solve this error?

How To Parse A File From Checkbox Input?
I've to develop a html page where when i click one or two checkboxes and click submit, it has to take the values from the checkboxes and search a file for these values and take the whole line where the value is obtained, and store that line in another file.

Match Input Value With Values In A Delimited File
I'm very very new to php. I need your help. I have a text file which is ~ delimited. Each line has a name and link. I want to check if the link is similar to my input and if it is then return the name.

Php4, Enterprise Server 3.5, No Input File Specified
I need to upgrade my php version to 4.3 on a Netscape Enterprise 3.5
server. I used the installation instructions that can be found on
php.net but all I get is a 'no input file specified'.

Does anyone has an idea how to solve this?

Updating Text File With Textarea Input
i am creating an admin page for a person to update a page of their website through a web browser. the problem that i am having is the formatting of the inputted data into the textarea box. when it is displayed, all the returns and breaks are removed and the data is all in one line. i have been experimenting with nl2br() but i am not sure where to put it.

Getting The File Path From A Html Form Input
I want to get the file path from a file input field, not just the filename. I don't have to necesarily use the input of type 'file', but that is the only way i know how to have a browse button.I tried using javascript to fetch the content of the file with this function:

function GetDirectory(){
   strFile = document.FileForm.filename.value;
   intPos = strFile.lastIndexOf("");
   strDirectory = strFile.substring(0, intPos);
   alert(strDirectory);}

but i don't know how to pass the javascript variable to the php.

Getting The Remote File Path From <input Type="file">
I'm using a form to upload a file to save in a mySQL database, however I need to store the original file path on the clients (the user uploading the file) computer.

The file path is shown in the field that selects the file, I just need to post it or save it in a session somehow.

$_POST Behavior From Input=submit Vs Input-type=button
I have been trying to solve an annoying behavior with PHP (I think).
Maybe some of you have encountered the same and have some ideas.

I have an html form and I use an <input type="button"> element with
the onClick event that calls a javascript funtion. Once the script's
content has been processed, I execute the form.submit() directive.

I would like to combine the html form and the PHP script into one, and
use action="<?php echo($PHP_SELF) ?>".

When the html form has <input type="button" name="theButton"
value="thisisthetrigger" onclick="doThis(this.form)">but PHP cannot
'read' the value of $_POST["theButton"] after form.submit().

If I substitute the <input type="button"> for <input type="submit">
then PHP reads the value just fine. Some may argue to just use the
latter option, but that will cost me a trip back to the server to
basically do a lot of validation that can be very easily accomplished
on the client side.

"No Input File Specified."
As an experiment I wrote a simple C program that invokes
PHP using system(), but I'm getting an error "No input file
specified.".

What I do is:

setenv ("REQUEST_METHOD", "GET", 1);
setenv ("QUERY_STRING", "abc=123", 1);

and then I invoke PHP thus:

system "/usr/local/bin/php myfile.php < dummyfile > foo";

where dummyfile is either empty or just contains the line
"abc=123".

Yet, I get this error. No finnagling is fix it.

Stripping Xs Spaces
I have a string that contains words and spaces. I wan't to make sure there is only ONE space between each word.

Str_replace TAB With 5 Spaces
I need to be able to search a string for "TAB" where "TAB" is when a user hits the "Tab" button and replace it with 5 spaces.

How To Get Strings With Spaces?
I have a Select pop-up with list of country names with a variable $Country. I pass this variable using the URL to the next page and it displays fine. When I have a link from page two to page three, the Variable is cut after a space.
(e.g) Page one I select "United States of America". Page 2 shows it ok. But, on page 3 this variable is only "United" the rest is gone. here is the link i use:

<a href="Response5.phtml?Country=$Country&day=$day&month=$month&year=$year">$day</a>

Replacing _ With Spaces
I am getting a form value from the previous page with:

<?php $_GET['value'] ?>

If that value contains _ then I want all the _ to be replaced by spaces, so bob_hammer becomes bob hammer. How can this be done?

Adding Spaces
I had this website on winXP w/ apache2 and php4, and the script worked perfectly but now I upgraded to Windows 2003 Server Enterprise, now I use IIS7 and php4, and whenever I go to add msgs or edit them in this script, it writes extra return characters to the file, im not quite sure why, but if you can pls look at the script, its at http://elemental2.no-ip.com/away_form.txt and the working script is at away_form.php (just change the .txt to .php)

The writing to files im talking about are around lines 775 but the display (which i think might also be a part of the problem) is on lines 312..

Problem With Spaces
this is the code:
print("change_text("english","$myrow[word_english]")>");

change_text(id,text) is a javascript function that changes some of the
text on the page to something else. $myrow[word_english] returns a
field from an entry in a mySQL database.

this works fine, rendering html like this:
change_text("english","green")>

unless $myrow[word_english] has a space in it, then I get this:
change_text("english","dark blue)>

what am I missing?

Padding With Spaces
I am trying to pad a number with spaces to the left. I can pad it with
zeros as in this code:

printf("<option value='%d'>%04s %s</option>n",
$row->id,
$row->NumberOfQuotes,
arrangeName($row->lastName, $row->firstName, $row->middleName,
$row->Title, $row->suffix));

Trying to do the same with spaces. It is not padding all the spaces but
only one space. Right justification:

printf("<option value='%d'>%4s %s</option>n",
$row->id,
$row->NumberOfQuotes,
arrangeName($row->lastName, $row->firstName, $row->middleName,
$row->Title, $row->suffix));

Even with left justification:

printf("<option value='%d'>%-4s %s</option>n",
$row->id,
$row->NumberOfQuotes,
arrangeName($row->lastName, $row->firstName, $row->middleName,
$row->Title, $row->suffix));

Does Anyone have any ideas on what I am doing wrong?

Insert Spaces
Anyone have an idea about how I could go about writing a function that
would simply insert a character inbetween each character in a string?

For instance:

HELLO WORLD

would turn into:

H E L L O W O R L D

My brain hurts from thinking about this one but I'm stumped.

Parsing Spaces.
I am doing a page where the people can load image files into the server. Everything works fine. The only problem is they are uploading files withs spaces and upercase name. I want to force people to load files using lowercase and without spaces in the file name. How do I check if the file name has spaces or is upercase?

Spaces In A String
i only just realised in testing, if a string has spaces it causes problems

as the string may be say vault est title bla bla.mp3

so when i have the link with ?path=path the whole string is not passed due to the spaces, and urlencode adds + + which when the link is clicked will cause the system to not be able to find the file

echo "<a href=streamfile.php?action=stream&&path=http://$_SERVER[SERVER_ADDR]'$result[playpath]'&type=pls>Stream file[/url]</td>";

how could i fix this so the full string including spaces is passed? i cant remember i thought it was something to do with quotes or using ?

Underscore (_) Instead Of Spaces?
In my site I have a lot of content title with spaces. This makes some odd looking formatting:

http://www.domain.com/file.php?name=word1%20word2

Should I be concerned with the %20? I plan on implementing some sort of search engine friendly URLs using mod rewrite soon..

What commands can I use to parse to remove it?

Ignoring Spaces...
I've built a search that works but relies on the users to input their request very accurately.

The data they're searching on are phone numbers which come from a MySQL DB. In the DB, phone numbers (from all over the world) are stored WITH spaces, like for example: 123 456 7890

What happens is people are typing in "1234567890" and this is coming up with no result. This also occurs if users type in: "123 4567890"... May be it would be also necessary to eliminate all spaces in the user's request prior to execute the query... How should I write my queries to make them work?

Due to the infinite power of PHP, I'm quite sure a simple solution exists.
The script could first transform the user's string in a string with no spaces then compares this new string against those contained in the DB ignoring while reading the existing spaces... This method avoid modification of the DB.

Variable With Spaces
I wanting to put data from a textfield in a form into a variable which has spaces in it.

e.g.

$var = 'some data';

but all i get when echoing the variable is 'some' when i want it to display 'some data' as one string. I need this for inserting and retrieving from my mssql database.

Replacing Spaces?
I've made this function to replace spaces with "-" and it doesn't work what did i do wrong?

<?php
$string = "Go for it now";
echo $string;
function change($str)
{
while ($a!=strlen($str));
{
  $ss =fgetc($file);
if ($ss==" ")
{
  $ss = "-";
}
  $ok = $ok+$ss;
  $a++;
  echo $ok;
  echo $a;
}
}
change($string);
?>

Stopping Spaces From Getting Passed
I have a simple little form that takes the name and a comment, and adds it to a table. I want to know if there is a way to prevent someone from just entering spaces, and having that get entered as their name. I have the if statement check for $name == '' - but the names entered as just spaces get by it.

Stripping Out Spaces And New Lines
I am trying to write a script that will go in to an included php file, strip out some things and save it back out. So far, so good.

The problem is when netscape navigator gold editor is used it does some things to the code that is creating havoc when the page is displayed. I wish that using that as an editor was NOT a choice but that is what the client uses sooooo... Anyway, here is the problem:

Remove More Than One Spaces In Between Words
i need to find a way to remove spaces, but only if there's more than one...
I'm writing a local searchengine, I trimmed the strings so left/right spaces are being removed; but the things is; if there's one more than one word, this string gets exploded to an array; so i need one space to determine the array. If there's more than one space, the script flips. PHP Code:

Ignore Spaces In Str_replace
Is there a code for ignoring spaces (more specifically line return) when I use str_replace() to search for and replace a specific string? This would be in instances where a word wraps around to the next line. ie

"wraps aro //this space would have been created by und"

Decimal Spaces Displayed...
Could someone please tell me how you can limit the number of decimal spaces shown when displaying a variable... i.e.

<?php

$Pie = 22 / 7;
echo("<p> $Pie </p>");
?>

I want to be able to print 3.14, not 3.14154534576.

Spaces In Words In Array
I've got an array that is storing some dynamically generated words that the user specifies. Those words then go into a database. So far so good. The problem is when i echo the array.

If the words have one space in between them everything is ok, it echos the words out ok. But if it has words with more than one space between them then it echos the word as if there is only one space between them. Maybe i'm not making much sense, i'll give you an example.

these phrases are in the array:

'this phrase is ok' - when i echo it it gives - 'this phrase is ok'

'this pharse is not ok' - echo - 'this phrase is not ok'

Even though i have two spaces in between the words in 'this phrase is not ok' it echoes out 'this phrase is not ok' with only one space between the words. Is stores the words in the database ok but it just doesnt echo it out right. Is this a glitch? Can this be fixed?

Using Preg_replace To Remove Spaces As Well..
I am using this to remove everything except the 0-9 and a-z characters,
but I also want to remove blanks spaces as well(yes even ones in
between words)

$strippedtext = preg_replace('/[^0-9a-z]/i','',$originaltext);

Displaying Spaces And Tabs
I've got a problem that i'm not real positive on the cause, or the solution. I've got a few places on my page that people can enter in text - like the message board, and now a web column of sorts.

I just have one or two problems. First, anytime someone enters more than one space, like at the end of a sentence, it always gets truncated down to just one. Second, i've no idea how to have a script display a tab. That is, something like indent the first line of a paragraph.

Regex Not Matching Spaces.
I'm parsing a body of text for tags that use square brackets to identify themselves, like BBCode. These tags may contain alphanumeric characters, spaces, apostrophes, underscores, dashes, basic punctuation, and pipes. The closest that I've been able to come up with is:
PHP Code:

Delete Spaces In Filenames
Does anybody know how I can realize the following: I want to convert this:

filename: le meridien.jpg
to
filename: lemeredien.jpg

Small Problem With Spaces
Here's the snip:

<?php
// edit records directly ask for authorisation first-->later

include "../includes/db_connect.php";
$id=$_GET["rec"];
$qry="SELECT * FROM eame WHERE id=$id";
$res=mysql_query($qry);
if(!$res)die("something not right");
$data=mysql_fetch_array($res, MYSQL_ASSOC);
?>

<FORM action="edit.php" method="post">
Project Title: <INPUT TYPE="text" maxlength=100 width=40 value=<? print
$data["pros"]; ?>>

Here's the problem:

$data["pros"] contains "This is a project title"

Displayed in the input field: This

everything starting from the space is stripped.

What can I do to prevent this from happening?

Trim White Spaces
I want to trim all white spaces our of a string and also any other characters other than numbers and letters.

It is for a domain name script so it needs everything removed other than numbers and letters

I have this so far but this only does white space??

$text = preg_replace('/s+/', ' ', $text);

Finding Spaces In A String
I am now looking for a way to go through a string variable, find any space that is present and replace it with _.

How would I go about?

The reason is I get input from a user.. lets say he/she loads a variable $Hockey = "Edmonton Oilers";

this variable is used to create a new webpage but of course, the web does not like spaces.. hence I would need this variable to be $Hockey = "Edmonton_Oilers";

Line Spaces In MYSQL
Below is my code. When I run this, the data for $row[coach] is one long parahraph unless I enter or <p></p> in the database itself. Is there a way to breakup the paragraphs at run time instead of putting it in the database for each entry? Code:

Displaying Line Spaces
If I have a multi-line input box and sentences are typed into it, how do I save/display the line spacing when calling it from a MySQL database?

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Using $_GET With Spaces In Variables
I need to pass some variables that have spaces from page 1 to page 2. But when I pass them, the variables show the spaces with %20. Should I replace the spaces with like a * before and then just strip all * from the variables once I get them on the other page? what is the simplest way? Code:

Spaces In From: Mail Header
I'm trying to send an email that has spaces in the from header:

$header = "From: sKunKbad sKunKbad sKunKbad";

but when the mail comes through, there are periods between like this:

sKunKbad.sKunKbad.sKunKbad

What am I doing wrong?