characters in image name

[graham23s]

Hi Guys,

 

This is  astrange one lol, when i upload a product to my site i do:

 

product-name (then i make the image the same name) product-name.jpg

 

if i have:

 

£-or-$-product-name.jpg any of those characters in the image name. it displays and works fine on localhost but not when i do it on my server.

 

thumb-$1000-something.jpg <-- displays fine on localhost but the "$" makes it not show on my live site, i'm not sure what the heck could be up

 

any help would be great

 

thanks guys

 

Graham

 

 

[schilly]

putting special characters in your filenames is just asking for trouble.

 

can't you leave them out? why would you put the price in the filename?

[jl5501]

If you must have these odd characters in the file name, you need to check what the html is actually looking for. Do a view source on the displayed page and see what actually ends up in the src attribute of the img tag, and then check that that exact file is on the server in the location being looked for.

 

But in general I would avoid any special characters in filenames, especially spaces

[teamatomic]

see if urlencode() will let it display

 

 

HTH

Teamatomic