use only lowercase filenames for uploaded images

So, this one has been driving me nuts forever. I run into this problem with Data Assist File Upload on almost all my projects and have come up with all kinds of different ways of fixing this. But I have no 100% fix. Please let me know how to ensure that any file uploaded will be lower case.

So IMG1023.jpg becomes img1023.jpg

I've had limited success with strtolower() here.

<?php
WA_DFP_SetupUploadStatusStruct("WA_UploadResult1");
if(isset($_POST["Update"])){
WA_DFP_UploadFiles("WA_UploadResult1", "newimg", "2", "".strtolower(((isset($_FILES["newimg"]))?$_FILES["newimg"]["name"]:"")) ."", "JPG:80", $WA_UploadResult1_Params);
}
?>

Also, if you can suggest something to remove whitespace from file names, that would be a help too. So that "IMG the Boat.jpg" become "img-the-boat.jpg" or something.

This, by the way, works when the same image is re-uploaded. So the first time the image is uploaded, the file name remains uppercase. But the second time the same image is uploaded again, the filename is made lowercase.

I can't figure out how to use stringtolower() in the second part of this operation so that the blasted filename is made lowercase in either operation.

Yep, frustrated.

:-)

Ive got filename changing working when I update the database with the new filename so that it replaces whitespace with - and it changes all to lowercase:

"".strtolower (str_replace(" ", "-", ($WA_DFP_UploadStatus["WA_UploadResult1"]["serverFileName"]))) ."" . $WA_AB_Split . "1";

ok I have adapted the code im using to do what you wanted (strip white space AND make lowercase): Here is my code for you to compare to yours:

$WA_UploadResult1_Params["WA_UploadResult1_1"] = array(
'UploadFolder' => "../../images/banner/",
'FileName' => "".strtolower(str_replace(" ", "-", (((isset($_FILES["fileupload"])))? preg_replace('/.[^.]*$/', '', $_FILES["fileupload"]["name"]) :""))) ."",
'DefaultFileName' => "",
'ResizeType' => "0",
'ResizeWidth' => "120",
'ResizeHeight' => "120",
'ResizeFillColor' => "#FFFFFF" );
// WA_UploadResult1_1 End
// WA_UploadResult1 Params End
?>
<?php
WA_DFP_SetupUploadStatusStruct("WA_UploadResult1");
if(isset($_POST["Save"]) || isset($_POST["Save_x"])){
WA_DFP_UploadFiles("WA_UploadResult1", "fileupload", "0", "", "JPG:100", $WA_UploadResult1_Params);
}
?>


Regards
Chris

Originally Said By: designerwest

  'FileName' => "".strtolower(str_replace(" ", "-", (((isset($_FILES["fileupload"])))? preg_replace('/.[^.]*$/', '', $_FILES["fileupload"]["name"]) :""))) ."",
Chris  

Thanks! It works. It will be nice to have this kind of change reflected in the next version of Data Assist.