Strange file access issue

[ejay]

Hello,

I'm having a very strange issue which i'm unable to identify/resolve.

 

I'm extracting an image using ffmpeg using following command

$source = '/home/test1/abc.mov';
$thumb = '/home/test1/thumb.jpg';
system('ffmpeg -i "' . $source . '" -ss 6 -vcodec mjpeg -f image2 -s 180x100 ' . $thumb);

This piece of code works fine and I can see the file, thumb.jpg, in the FTP fine. But if I run a

file_exists($thumb);

right after the above piece of code, PHP can't find the file. The image is created as is a valid jpg file (displays fine if downloaded via FTP)

I'm able to access all other files in '/home/test1/' directory using file_get_contents(); and file_exists() without any issues.

Any help would be appreciated.

thanks

 

[requinix]

Just to be sure, what's the code around that call to file_exists()?

[ejay]

thanks for the quick reply.

here's the code (I'm debugging atm)

 

if (file_exists($thumb))
{
    echo "<pre>thumb exists</pre>";
}
else
{
    echo "<pre>thumb can not be accessed</pre>";
}

 

and I always get "thumb can not be accessed"

[ejay]

Ok I got it resolved. It had nothing to do with ffmpeg.

Originally the "$thumb" and "$source" strings were different than my original post. The string were in following form (notice the quotes)

//original dev's code format
$source = '"/home/test1/abc.mov"';
$thumb = '"/home/test1/thumb.jpg"';

Something on the server got updated (by admins) and the code stopped working :|

 

I hope it helps somebody somehow.

thanks.