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Re: [PHP-DOC] #22399 [Asn]: file_exists : example given of shared path format is obviously defective From: Victor Boivie (vboivie <email protected>)
Date: 03/03/03

True. I didn't really think about that one.

I'm sorry if I sounded a bit angry with you in my previous post.

Anyway: I've removed all single quotes from the paths now so there should be
no confusion about how the path is formatted. If the user wants to put the
path in a string, he/she will have to escape it any way he/she wants to.

Victor
----- Original Message -----
From: "Edin Kadribasic" <edink <email protected>>
To: <phpdoc <email protected>>; <victor <email protected>>
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DOC] #22399 [Asn]: file_exists : example given of shared
path format is obviously defective

> Your example was not right since you get only one leading backslash
> which doesn't indicate computer name. Ie echo
> '\\computername\share\filename' will print
> \computername\share\filename which is not desired in this context.
>
> This is because in singe quoted there are *two* special cases \\ and
> \'
>
> Edin
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <victor <email protected>>
> To: <phpdoc <email protected>>
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 9:02 AM
> Subject: [PHP-DOC] #22399 [Asn]: file_exists : example given of
> shared path format is obviously defective
>
>
> > ID: 22399
> > Updated by: victor <email protected>
> > Reported By: alan at frostick dot com
> > Status: Assigned
> > Bug Type: Documentation problem
> > Operating System: WIN32
> > PHP Version: 4.3.1
> > Assigned To: victor
> > New Comment:
> >
> > Well, ...
> >
> > You _are_ right that I _should_ do that, but you actually only
> have to
> > escape backslashes in a single quote when they are at the end of
> the
> > string (or escaping single quotes in a single quoted string). So
> there
> > is actually no errors in my example. ref:
> > http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php
> >
> > What I think is best is to write \\computername\share\filename
> without
> > the quotes and hope that the user is intelligent enought to
> understand
> > that the path has to be escaped properly when put inside double
> quotes.
> > Any other suggestions?
> >
> >
> > Previous Comments:
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------
> >
> > [2003-03-02 17:49:26] edink <email protected>
> >
> > Wrong! You need to escape backslash character in any type of php
> > string, including string in single quotes. So the correct way to
> write
> > it would be:
> >
> > '\\\\computername\\share\\filename'
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------
> >
> > [2003-03-02 04:48:20] victor <email protected>
> >
> > I've changed \\\\computername\share\filename to
> > \\computername\share\filename and put every example in single
> quotes to
> > make it more even more clear.
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------
> >
> > [2003-02-25 16:29:31] stone <email protected>
> >
> > Sorry, I changed submitter's e-mail.
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------
> >
> > [2003-02-25 16:27:17] stone <email protected>
> >
> > At least "//server/share/filename/" had been working starting from
> > 4.1.0 while '\\server\share\filename' didn't for quite a long time
> > (until 4.2.0?).
> > If you want to write cross plattform code it's not a bad idea to
> rely
> > on php's auto conversion of slashes to backslashes in file paths
> on
> > windows platforms.
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------
> >
> > [2003-02-24 17:55:00] php at mijav dot dk
> >
> > I partially agree. I agree that it's incorrect. But the correct
> way
> > should be '\\computername\share\filename' in plings, or
> > "\\\\computername\\share\\filename" in quotes, as you said.
> > I don't think the manual should read \\\\ (escaped backslashes)
> unless
> > it is writtenly-quoted, to avoid misunderstanding.
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------
> >
> > The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To
> view
> > the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at
> > http://bugs.php.net/22399
> >
> > --
> > Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=22399&edit=1
> >
> >
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