Question

Sequel to my question here: Addslashes displays as forward slashes in php ,

I want to strip slashes from the filenames of files i have on my server. the slashes were added during file upload (magic_quotes).

Please how can i go about this? thanks

Answer 1

Here you go:

<?php
$path         =  '/path/to/files/dir/';
$file_types   =  'txt,doc,pdf';

foreach (glob($path.'*.{'.$file_types.'}', GLOB_BRACE) as $filename){
    if(rename($filename , stripslashes($filename))){
        echo 'Renamed file from '.$filename.' to '.stripslashes($filename).'<br />';
    } else{
        echo 'Failed to rename file from '.$filename.' to '.stripslashes($filename).'<br />';
    }
}
?>

Change path to files and the comma separated list of file types.

Update with asker’s code on the comments:

$dir='cv'; 
if(is_dir($dir)){ 
    if ($dh = opendir($dir)) { 
        while (false !== ($file = readdir($dh))) { 
            if ($file != "." && $file != "..") { 
                $file2 = $dir."/".$file; $newfile=$dir."/".stripslashes(urldecode($file)); 
                if(rename($file2, $newfile)){
                    echo "renamed from $file2 to $newfile <br>";
                } else{
                    echo "error renaming from $file2 to $newfile <br>";
                } 
            } 
        } 
        closedir($dh); 
    } 
}