Posted by Dave Moore on 12/29/05 00:36

Thanks. That seems to be working now.

Ta,
Dave

"Janwillem Borleffs" <jw@jwscripts.com> wrote in message
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> Dave Moore wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > Ok, here's my problem. I want to open a file and process its
> > contents. However, because it is possible that the file may not
> > exist, I also want to check whether the file() function is successful
> > before attempting to process any returned data from the file()
> > function. The php file() manual page suggests that it returns FALSE
> > if it is unsuccessful, however this simply doesn't happen on my
> > system. My code looks like the following:
> >
> >
>
> It does work as is demonstrated with the following:
>
> print file('http://example.com/lost') == false ? 1 : 0;
>
> Have a look at what the file() function call actually returns (e.g., with
> print_r()). Chances are that because of some directive, your webserver
does
> not return a 404 response code, but redirects with a 301/302 response code
> to some other page.
>
>
> JW
>
>

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