Posted by bill on 12/04/06 11:39

pangea33 wrote:
> Michael Fesser wrote:
>> .oO(bill)
>>
>>> I have a directory into which I upload pictures. I know the
>>> entire file name other than the extension.
>>>
>>> file_exists will return true when I give it a wildcard extension,
>>> but I can't figure out the best way to determine the extension
>>> for fopen.
>> http://www.php.net/glob
>>
>> Micha
>
> Not so sure that I agree using a function in an application, that
> communicates with the OS via a webserver, is a better choice than
> something native to the operating system, but this solution will
> definitely work. Probably easier to handle the result set too.
>

In my case where there is only one result, should work a treat.

Thanks

bill

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