How to remove the whitespace in image name and save the new file

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I am using a wordpress plugin called “Add Linked Images To Gallery” in order to save a local copy of images posted on my site. I uploaded all my files in a different hosting and I was testing this plugin in localhost to see if it does the job .

What does this plugin do :
The plugin searches for external images posted in the site , save a local copy and replace the old image address in HTML code with the new image address which is in the local.

What is the problem :

While testing the plugin in the local host , I noticed that this plugin does not correctly save images which have “white spaces” on their file names. For example :

This is an Image.png

will not display in the blog, instead this is the correct way to show it :

This%2520is%2520an%2520image.png

as you can see , the white spaces are replaced with “%2520” , I am not sure why this is happening, but the image wont show up in the blog.

I tried to modify this plugin so it automatically replaces the white space in the image file with “_” , I look at the source code and found this line: 

    $content = preg_replace('/(<img[^>]* src=[\'"]?)('.$trans.')/', '$1'.$imgpath, $content);

which I believe is responsible for the replacing images, but when I modified it , it removed the post content and image.

Is it possible to modify this plugin, so it replace the white space in the file name first , then save a local copy, then use that local copy in the blog ?

thanks

2 Answers
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Use sanitize_file_name( $filename ). This function doesn’t just catch white space, it removes other special characters too:

$special_chars = array(
    "?", "[", "]", "https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/", "\\", "=", "<", ">", ":", ";", ",", 
    "'", "\"", "&", "$", "#", "*", "(", ")", "|", "~", "`", 
    "!", "{", "}", chr(0)
);

Find the following line in the plugin’s code:

$id = media_handle_sideload($file_array, $post_id, $desc);

Immediately above this line add:

$file_array['tmp_name'] = sanitize_file_name( $file_array['tmp_name'] );

Caveat: I haven’t tested it.

Make sure to rename the plugin and the plugin’s file name. Otherwise you get upgrade notices. And contact the author, ask him to implement these changes.

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