how to escape parenthesis ?

[gdfhghjdfghgfhf]

i got a script that will look for a specific file on my server and then return a link to access the file. Problem is that if the search query includes parenthesis the script will not return anything.

 

For example, if $search = "test(test)test[test].zip" the script will not return anything even if the file test(test)test[test].zip exist on the server

 

how can i fix it ?

 

 

 

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

$root = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
 $search = addslashes(utf8_decode($_GET['search']));

function rsearch($folder, $pattern) {
    $dir = new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($folder);
    $ite = new RecursiveIteratorIterator($dir);
    $files = new RegexIterator($ite, $pattern, RegexIterator::GET_MATCH);
    $fileList = array();
    foreach($files as $file) {
        $fileList = array_merge($fileList, $file);
    }
    return $fileList;
}
$resultat = rsearch($root, '/.*\/'.$search.'/');
//print_r($resultat);
echo "<br>";
echo utf8_encode($resultat[0]);

 

[doddsey_65]

You will need to escape the parenthesis in your search query like so

$search = "test\(test\)test\[test\]\.zip

[kicken]

Since you are putting the term into a regex, you'd need to escape any characters that are special to regex (unless you want the end-user to be able to use a regex).

 

Have a look at preg_quote to solve the problem.