Posted by "Gustav Wiberg" on 10/20/06 11:31

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Blanchard" <jay.blanchard@THERMON.com>
To: "'Gustav Wiberg'" <gustav@varupiraten.se>; "PHP General"
<php-general@lists.php.net>
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 9:02 PM
Subject: RE: [PHP] FileExists?


> [snip]
> File_exists doesn't seem to work with URLs that point to another domain.
> What to use?
>
> $x = fopen(http://www.stammis.com/getstart.php);
> if file_exists($x) ....
> ....
> ????
> [/snip]
>
> What version of PHP are you using. With anything less than PHP5 you cannot
> use file_exists on anything other than the file system PHP is local to.
>
> All versions of PHP. Explicitly using file:// since PHP 4.3.0
>
> /path/to/file.ext
>
> relative/path/to/file.ext
>
> fileInCwd.ext
>
> C:/path/to/winfile.ext
>
> C:\path\to\winfile.ext
>
> \\smbserver\share\path\to\winfile.ext
>
> file:///path/to/file.ext
>
> file:// is the default wrapper used with PHP and represents the local
> filesystem. When a relative path is specified (a path which does not begin
> with /, \, \\, or a windows drive letter) the path provided will be
> applied
> against the current working directory. In many cases this is the directory
> in which the script resides unless it has been changed. Using the CLI
> sapi,
> this defaults to the directory from which the script was called.
>
Hi

I'm using PHP 4.3.0.

Thanx! :-)

/G
http://www.varupiraten.se/

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