if_exists

[kev]

Hello all.

 

<?php

 

$file_name = ("file_type.php");

if (file_exists($file_name)) {

echo ("$file_name does exist.");

}

else {

echo ("$file_name does not exist.");

}

?>

 

According to the source for this file the echo should have been:

file_type.php does exist.

Unfortunately the oposite happened:

file_type.php does not exist.

 

kev....

 

[scootstah]

Is "file_type.php" in the same directory as the script running this code?

[kev]

Hello scootsah.

 

The script is a piece of standalone script from a book turorial. I half guessed that the full path or something was missing but I wondered also if there had been some PHP change somewhere.

By all accounts the book I have is a litany of minor errors most of which were waiting for me.

The next example in line has the same problem but dealing with 'is_readable', 'is_writeable' and 'is_excecutable'. I will take it as a standalone script nothing will work as it is meant to.

Thanks scootsah.

kev