Hey there,

In a form we have a file upload field. I have written an additional statement at the bottom of the notification_email to create a link to the file attached so that the client can DL it without accessing FTP or the server. Code is below:

<a href="http://www.site.com/formname/storage/files/[attachment]\">Attachment #1</a>

Unfortunately, this doesn't work when the user uploads a file with a space in the title. I just realized why - usually the browsers adds a "%20" to indicate a space but the form appears to be removing the first space in the filename so when I click the link it puts "%20" wherever there is a space, except where the first space appears.
Ex. Filename: jobs john doe.pdf

When I go to open the generated link the location appears are ".../storage/files/jobsjohn%20.pdf
So, it removed the first space but the rest remained. On the server the file is still uploaded as jobs john doe.pdf"

Anyone know how to help?

Thank you very much.

Any chance you can just have those using the forms not put spaces in the filenames?

May or may not help you ...
http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Encoding-and-Decoding-URL-99dc4256

Brian: We have added a large note next to the upload asking people to please not use spaces but there have been a few instances where people have uploaded and I have to go onto the server and send our client the files.

Gunsmoke: Any clue how this could be implemented into the Web Form Builder files?

Thanks for the help guys!

Sorry, I'm a hacker not a coder. I'm sure it can be done, but Eric, Steve, Inger or one of the many other coders here would have to explain how. From everything I read if you manage to encode your url and change the spaces to pluses or the %20 then it should work. Ideally you should not have ANY spaces in file names anymore. But getting your users to understand that can be difficult, if not impossible! Hopefully someone will chime in here and help you out. Good luck!

I would open a support ticket on this as it actually sounds like it's not working correctly. I would think if it were going to strip one space it should strip them all and maybe the CC team isn't aware this is not happening.

I looked at the files and it appears that this can be altered on the utilities.inc.php page as long as your exporting your form and not using S-Drive. I would also agree with JoAnn in that it should strip all spaces from a file name.

Form Builder is working exactly how it should. It just was never really designed for the function Melanie is looking for. We always preserve the original file name. I will add it to the list of possible enhancements for a future update.

Spaces are allowed in a file name and it uploads the file correctly. The issue comes from trying to link to that file over http where those spaces get encoded and creating a linking problem. That is something we never intended the software to be used as. It can be done but as you can see, there are some consequences when doing so.

My suggestion would be to use a PHP file in the folder that creates a directory listing. This would then allow you to see all files.

Go to line 158 of the utilities.inc.php page and insert this


directly below this

So when your done it will look like this.
158 $basename = str_replace( '.', '_', $tmp ) . substr( $basename, $pos );
159 $basename = preg_replace('/\s+/', '', $basename);
160 }

If your using mysql with this your table will show the original name with the space and the new file name without the space. It saves the file on your server without spaces. Your confirmation will also show the spaces removed.