Checks whether a file or directory exists fgetss file_get_contents Filesystem Functions PHP Manual file_exists (PHP 4, PHP 5)file_exists — Checks whether a file or directory exists Description bool file_exists ( string $filename ) Checks whether a file or directory exists. Parameters filename Path to the file or directory. On windows, use //computername/share/filename or \\computername\share\filename to check files on network shares. Return Values Returns TRUE if the file or directory specified by filename exists; FALSE otherwise. Note: This function will return FALSE for symlinks pointing to non-existing files. Warning This function returns FALSE for files inaccessible due to safe mode restrictions. However these files still can be included if they are located in safe_mode_include_dir. Note: The check is done using the real UID/GID instead of the effective one. Examples Example #1 Testing whether a file exists <?php$filename = '/path/to/foo.txt';if (file_exists($filename)) { echo "The file $filename exists";} else { echo "The file $filename does not exist";}?> Notes Note: The results of this function are cached. See clearstatcache() for more details. TipAs of PHP 5.0.0, this function can also be used with some URL wrappers. Refer to List of Supported Protocols/Wrappers for a listing of which wrappers support stat() family of functionality. See Also is_readable() is_writable() is_file() file() fgetss file_get_contents Filesystem Functions PHP Manual
