Question

Probably just something small, but I am using the below code to read the files inside of a directory and print them out as of a hyperlink to itself.

It prints out the complete file name, but it creates an incomplete hyperlink using only characters up to the first space. The question is how to create a functional hyperlink for a file with spaces in it?

$dir = '.';
$dh = opendir($dir);
$file_count = 0;
while (false !== ($file = readdir($dh))) {
    $files[] = $file;
    $file_count += 1;
    echo $file;
}
for ($x = 0; $x < $file_count; $x += 1) {
    echo "<a href=$files[$x]>" . "$files[$x]" . "</a><br>";
}

Answer 1

You may wish to add quotes to the HREF attribute inside the anchor tag:

 echo "<a href='$files[$x]'>$files[$x]</a><br>";

The client may think the part of the filename following the space is another attribute. (You may also want to use htmlentities() to escape the filenames inside the href attribute.)