PHP if file exists url problem really need help!

[Kritical_V]

Hello.

 

This is my first post here and I was hoping someone can give me a hand,

 

I am trying to develop a small piece of code that will display and image on my blog however if it cannot be found it shows some text.

 

<?php
$filename = '<?php bloginfo('template_directory');?>/images/hubs/<?php single_cat_title();?>.jpg';

if (file_exists('bloginfo('$filename')) 
{ 
//show it 
} 
else 
{ 
echo "Hello World";
}
dc 
?>

 

The problem is with the second line,

 

I am using two wordpress functions to generate the URL however I am new to PHP and there is something wrong with my code.

 

Can anyone help

Please...

Thank You

[haku]

You are using PHP tags in your second line. You shouldn't be.

 

It should be this:

 

$filename = bloginfo('template_directory') . '/images/hubs/' . single_cat_title() . '.jpg';

[haku]

Double post

[Kritical_V]

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE

 

Thats on the line you just gave me any ideas whats wrong?

 

<?php
$filename = bloginfo('template_directory') . '/images/hubs/' . single_cat_title() . '.jpg';
if (file_exists('bloginfo('$filename')) 
{ 
//show it 
} 
else 
{ 
echo "IMAGE NOT FOUND";
}
dc 
?>

 

[Kritical_V]

Okay I fixed that problem,

 

<?php
$filename = bloginfo('template_directory') . '/images/hubs/' . single_cat_title() . '.jpg';
if (file_exists($filename))
{ 
//show it 
} 
else 
{ 
}
dc 
?>

 

However the following is not printing:

. '/images/hubs/' .

. '.jpg'

 

again any ideas

Thanks

[Kritical_V]

Still need a fix if anyone can help

[haku]

what does the output look like?

[xyph]

What's the issue now? What errors are you getting?

The code looks fine, but I don't know what your functions are returning so I can't help.

 

. '/images/hubs/' .

. '.jpg'

will never be output in your script.

[Kritical_V]

It outputs the url wrong:

 

http://www.mywebsite.com/content/themesEntertainment

 

(Entertainment is the category name)

 

It should print

 

http://www.mywebsite.com/content/themes/images/hubs/Entertainment.jpg

 

The

 

/images/hubs/ & .jpg does not print.

[Kritical_V]

Still not working, Anyone I really need help.

[Kritical_V]

Okay been playing with it for the last hour and still nothing so I ask again for help. Please someone lend a hand.

[haku]

You've got me. It's obviously returning values from the function calls, I can't imagine why it wouldn't be concatenating the text. Are you showing us your actual code there, or is it dummy code? I suppose you could break it down like this:

 

$filename = bloginfo('template_directory');
$filename .= '/images/hubs/';
$filename .= single_cat_title();
$filename .= '.jpg';

 

But I really don't think this should be necessary.

[Kritical_V]

No I have already tried that its still not outputting.

 

Thats the actual code, The URL isn't tho.

 

I'm considering rewarding whoever can do this...

[xyph]

We'd have to see your exact chunk of code.

 

There's no output in the snippet you've provided.

 

<?php
$filename = bloginfo('template_directory') . '/images/hubs/' . single_cat_title() . '.jpg';
if (file_exists($filename)) { 
echo 'Exists - '.$filename;
} else { 
echo 'Not Exists - '.$filename;
}
?>

[Kritical_V]

Okay,

 

<?php
$filename = bloginfo('template_directory') . '/images/hubs/' . single_cat_title() . '.jpg';
if (file_exists('bloginfo('$filename')) 
{ 
//show it 
} 
else 
{ 
echo "IMAGE NOT FOUND";
}
dc 
?>

 

That's the exact code I'm using,

 

It's outputting the following as text:

http://www.mysitesadress.com/content/themes/mythemeEntertainment

 

The

http://www.mysitesadress.com/content/themes/mytheme

is from the bloginfo('template_directory') bit

 

and

Entertainment

is from the single_cat_title() bit

 

It should out put the image found at:

http://www.mysitesadress.com/content/themes/mytheme/images/hubs/Entertainment.jpg

 

and if its not found should run the Else clause.

 

 

[xyph]

Have you tried running my code? The following works fine for me

 

<?php
$filename = bloginfo('template_directory') . '/images/hubs/' . single_cat_title() . '.jpg';
if (file_exists($filename)) { 
echo 'Exists - '.$filename;
} else { 
echo 'Not Exists - '.$filename;
}

function bloginfo($str) { return $str; }
function single_cat_title() { return 'Entertainment'; }

?>

 

Returns

 

Not Exists - template_directory/images/hubs/Entertainment.jpg

[haku]

I agree - the code you have been given and are showing will work fine. If it's not working, then you must have some other code that's doing something strange. I concatenate strings and function output all the time, and it works fine. For a test, just do this:

 

<?php

$filename = bloginfo('template_directory') . '/images/hubs/' . single_cat_title() . '.jpg';

die($filename);

?>

 

If it doesn't output the $filename correctly, I'm a monkey's uncle.