{"id":5049,"date":"2025-05-25T11:56:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T10:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/?p=5049"},"modified":"2025-05-25T11:56:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T10:56:49","slug":"file-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/php\/files\/file-names","title":{"rendered":"File names"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Shorten filename if necessary<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>  define(\"FILENAME_MAX_LENGTH\",     10);\n\n  $file1_name = \"myfilenameisthis.txt\";\n\n  \/\/Shorten the file name if its too long\n  $FilenameExtension = pathinfo($file1_name, PATHINFO_EXTENSION);\n  $FilenameBasename = pathinfo($file1_name, PATHINFO_FILENAME);\n  $FilenameExtension = $FilenameExtension ? '.' . $FilenameExtension : '';   \/\/If extension is present, add the dot\n  $MaxBasenameLength = FILENAME_MAX_LENGTH - strlen($FilenameExtension);\n\n  if ($MaxBasenameLength &lt; 1)\n  {\n    \/\/Not enough space for even 1 character of the basename\n    $file1_name = substr($FilenameBasename, 0, 1) . $FilenameExtension;   \/\/&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;THIS WILL BE TOO LONG!!!!\n  }\n  else if (strlen($FilenameBasename) > $MaxBasenameLength)\n  {\n    \/\/Filename needs shortening\n    $file1_name = substr($FilenameBasename, 0, $MaxBasenameLength) . $FilenameExtension;\n  }\n  else\n  {\n    \/\/No need to shorten\n    \/\/$file1_name = $file1_name;\n  }<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shorten filename if necessary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5050,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049\/revisions\/5050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}