Image filenames with white space

Question

I get an array of image URL by php scanning image folders. Some of the image file names have white space. The part after white space got lost. for example: This file is fine:

http://domain.com/folder/blue-sky.png

This file will lost the part sky.png

http://domain.com/folder/blue sky.png

My code for scanning the folder has nothing to do with checking or manipulating file names. How can I get the full name of blue sky.png without rename it to blue-sky.png?

Answer 1

I encountered this problem but after experimenting with the answers above I realised that the real problem was that I had written my html link without the inverted commas - typically browsers are tolerant of this, but not if spaces are present. i.e I had coded something like
a href=../folder/blue sky.png
instead of
a href="../folder/blue sky.png"
With the correct syntax spaces in the address do not cause problems

Answer 2

Space in url encoding are represented with the string "%20" so you may want to use str_replace to replace every instance of the " " character to the character "%20"

echo str_replace(' ', '%20', 'http://domain.com/folder/blue sky.png');

will output

http://domain.com/folder/blue%20sky.png

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Complementary information

Also, I never used it myself, but I would take a look at the php function urlencode if I were you, it may contains useful information

Note : Url encode will transform every characters that is not standard of the string (so you may want to only use urlencode on the string that is your image name)