How can I replace white space in filename of uploaded file

Question

I\'m making a SWF uploader and have my HTML form done.

It works totally fine until I upload a SWF file with spaces in the name.

How can I replace whitespace

Answer 1

I usually approach it from the other side and only allow characters from a white-list; I replace everything except these characters:

$file = preg_replace("/[^-_a-z0-9]+/i", "_", $file);