Posted by "Richard Lynch" on 10/04/36 11:31

On Mon, November 7, 2005 1:45 pm, Gustav Wiberg wrote:
> 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);

There are no quotes on that URL... I'd be surprised if this doesn't
error out, but maybe you just need E_ALL to see the E_NOTICE you've
been ignoring.

At any rate, you need quotes, whether you realize it or not.

> if file_exists($x) ....

$x, at this point, is either FALSE because fopen() failed, or an open
file handle.

file_exists() expects the path to a file name (a string).

Perhaps you meant:
file_exists("http://www.example.com");

http://php.net/file_exists specifically links to the kinds of
stream-wrappers that are and aren't supported. Did you read that?

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