I have some PHP pages that worked fine using a Windows based HTTP server (specifically OpenSA - Apache). I have since moved those pages to a Mandrake 9.2 system. The problem is that referencing filenames with imbedded spaces worked fine under Windows. However, in Unix those imbedded spaces cause errors. I can use quotes (") on the command line to access those filenames but that doesn't seem to work with the Mandrake version of PHP.

For example, what would be the corrrect syntax of:

if (file_exists($dirname."/".$filename.".txt")) {

if both of the strings in $dirname and $filename contain spaces?

I tried this to no avail:

if (file_exists("\"".$dirname."/".$filename.".txt"."\"")) {

TIA.

Did you try backslash in front of the space? For example...

$ cd "folder name"
$ cd folder\ name

Test it with the Mandrake version of php. If it works, just use str_replace or any similar functions to turn spaces into backslash spaces.

No I didn't. Thanks for the suggestion.'ll give it a try.