[SOLVED] Checking an external file exists?

[tomtom]

Hey.

 

How can you check an external file exists?

 

I'm trying

 

if(file_get_contents("http://myfile.com/test.ini")) {

   // do my code if the file exists

}

 

right.

 

But I just get

 

Warning: file_get_contents(http://myfile.com/test.ini) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found in...

 

etc. Any suggestions? I want it to return true if the file exists; but if it doesn't exist -  I don't want it to return that error - or any error lol.

 

Cheers guys (y)

[genericnumber1]

file_exists() surprisingly enough

http://us.php.net/file_exists

[tomtom]

Yeah I've tried that - but it doesn't work on external files

 

Well it doesn't on my server anyway. Running PHP version: 5.2.6

[tomtom]

OH. file_exists does work.

 

I must have done something different :S

 

Cheers man

[tomtom]

Oh wait...It doesn't work haha.

 

 

It always returns false. Even if the file does exist. No error. Just always returns false.

[trq]

Check your phpinfo() to make sure you have url wrappers enabled.

[tomtom]

Ahh don't worry.

 

I've settled with

 

@file_get_contents($file)

 

Hides the errors and works ty anyway!