Apache Friends Support Forum

Hya,

How can I put a breaking space in a filename with php? (breaking space is Alt+255 on Windows with belgian keyboard)

Please, reply in simple words as possible, I speak french, normally, and my english is really poor...

This script doesn't works:

Code: Select all

<?php
        $handle=fopen('file name with breaking space','w+');
        fclose($handle);
?>


Thank you by advance.

Whats the difference between space and breaking space?

With breaking space (if it's really his name in english), Apache is unable to serve it to the client.

I found this good tip for the security on Wamp, principally for includes.

Example, on Wamp, the client can call a file with a normal space in the filename but not with a breaking space. (it return a Forbidden access)

But the breaking space is usefull for a lot of things, example in php, You can't name a variable as $one variable but it works if You replace the space by a breaking space.

Seems like a security through obscurity to me and using it in variable names is definitely not a good practice. Also, I don't think you really mean a breaking/zero-width space.

I think your problem is caused by different character encodings - on filesystem and in script. The character has probably different code in Windows encoding and in UTF-8 (default on most Linux systems). Or you're running even older Linux version, with some ISO 8859 character set... It's quite a mess...

So my recommendation is to get rid of this. If you don't believe me about the practice, you still have at least one reason: bad portability.