[SOLVED] file_exists...

[acctman]

I'm having trouble getting the statement below to process. I'm not receiving an error. If i remove the if file_exists function the glob and array_map work fine. Should I just add a @unlink and make the code run without the if statement all the time regardless is the file is there or not?

 

$ifile = glob("/home/site/public_html/imgs/2005/04/2946/imgPub/imgTmb/200_*.jpg");
if(file_exists($ifile)) {
array_map('unlink', $ifile);
}

[MadTechie]

$ifile = an array. so that file won't exist

 

 

[waynew]

$ifile should be a string containing the path to the file:

 

$ifile = "images/image.jpg";

[acctman]

i just tested the code without the IF statement and it does not output an error if the file is no longer there. so thats perfect. i can run the code below with no problem

 

$ifile = glob("/home/site/public_html/imgs/2005/04/2946/imgPub/imgTmb/200_*.jpg");
array_map('unlink', $ifile);

[.josh]

well glob will only return files that match the pattern, so it's not like it will return files that don't exist.  if no files are found, it returns and empty array. So when array_map walks through each returned result and unlinks the file, it's either not going to unlink anything because there are no elements in the array to walk through, or else it's going to unlink a file that exists.