eval() Problem

[nomaam]

Hello:

 

I am new to PHP and am trying to learn what I can. I am stuck on a problem where I am working with a try block to catch if a required file is not found here is the code so far:

 

try {
  if (!@eval(require("header.inc.php"))) {
    throw new exception('File not found');
    }else{

   print "File found.\n";

}
  
} catch (Exception $e) {
  echo 'Caught exception: '.$e->getMessage()."\n";
}

 

The problem seem to be the syntax for the eval() function. I have tried many many different variations on the syntax including changing all the quotes to different types and removing them and even placing the string in a variable then trying to evaluate it. Nothing seems to work.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Thanks.

 

 

[Ken2k7]

Well if you want to see if the file: header.inc.php exists, you can use file_exists().