[PHP] Re: file_exists fun

2011-12-02 Thread Dee Ayy
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Dee Ayy wrote: > The following code: > >                        $new_file = > ADS_DIR_INTERNAL.'/'.$ad_info['id'].'_'.$ad_info['filename']; >                        echo "NEW_FILE:[".$new_file."]\n"; >                        echo "file_exists Using > VAR:[".file_e

Re: [PHP] Re: file_exists and wildcard/regex

2008-12-09 Thread German Geek
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Stut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9 Dec 2008, at 23:24, Daniel Kolbo wrote: > > Maciek Sokolewicz wrote: >> >>> Daniel Kolbo wrote: >>> What is the preferred method with php to test and see if a file [pattern] exists? For example, i only n

Re: [PHP] Re: file_exists and wildcard/regex

2008-12-09 Thread Stut
On 9 Dec 2008, at 23:24, Daniel Kolbo wrote: Maciek Sokolewicz wrote: Daniel Kolbo wrote: What is the preferred method with php to test and see if a file [pattern] exists? For example, i only need to search in one directory, that may have any number of files named such as afile1.txt, afi

Re: [PHP] Re: file_exists and wildcard/regex

2008-12-09 Thread Chris
Daniel Kolbo wrote: Maciek Sokolewicz wrote: Daniel Kolbo wrote: What is the preferred method with php to test and see if a file [pattern] exists? For example, i only need to search in one directory, that may have any number of files named such as afile1.txt, afile2.txt, afile3.txt, A

[PHP] Re: file_exists and wildcard/regex

2008-12-09 Thread Daniel Kolbo
Maciek Sokolewicz wrote: Daniel Kolbo wrote: What is the preferred method with php to test and see if a file [pattern] exists? For example, i only need to search in one directory, that may have any number of files named such as afile1.txt, afile2.txt, afile3.txt, And also, bfile1.txt,

[PHP] Re: file_exists and wildcard/regex

2008-12-09 Thread Maciek Sokolewicz
Daniel Kolbo wrote: What is the preferred method with php to test and see if a file [pattern] exists? For example, i only need to search in one directory, that may have any number of files named such as afile1.txt, afile2.txt, afile3.txt, And also, bfile1.txt, bfile2.txt, bfile3.txt, ..

[PHP] Re: file_Exists() and case

2008-11-28 Thread Lupus Michaelis
Stan a écrit : The script is running on an UBUNTU v8.04 LAMP server. Case is supposed to matter, isn't it? With a POSIX filesystem only. If you store you're pictures in a fat or ntfs filesystem, case sensitive will not matter. BTW, extension concept doesn't exists in POSIX filesystems, bec

Re: [PHP] Re: file_Exists() and case

2008-11-24 Thread Bastien Koert
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Stut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 24 Nov 2008, at 14:41, Stan wrote: > >> Shouting is something that happens when people are actually speaking and >> listening. In a medium where there is no other way to emphasize salient >> points in a message, capitalization

Re: [PHP] Re: file_Exists() and case

2008-11-24 Thread Stut
On 24 Nov 2008, at 14:41, Stan wrote: Shouting is something that happens when people are actually speaking and listening. In a medium where there is no other way to emphasize salient points in a message, capitalization is all that works. I'm sorry it offended your sensabilities. It's actu

[PHP] Re: file_Exists() and case

2008-11-24 Thread Stan
Stut, Shouting is something that happens when people are actually speaking and listening. In a medium where there is no other way to emphasize salient points in a message, capitalization is all that works. I'm sorry it offended your sensabilities. realpath() fails, just like file_exists() fails,

Re: [PHP] Re: file_Exists() and case

2008-11-23 Thread Stut
On 23 Nov 2008, at 19:12, Stan wrote: This thread began because file_exists() WILL NOT tell that a file exists FOR SURE and FOR CERTAIN if the file you check for happens to be named whatever.jpg and whatever.JPG exists. I know this because IMagick then chokes on whatever.jpg because it DOES

Re: [PHP] Re: file_Exists() and case

2008-11-23 Thread Nathan Rixham
Stan wrote: This thread began because file_exists() WILL NOT tell that a file exists FOR SURE and FOR CERTAIN if the file you check for happens to be named whatever.jpg and whatever.JPG exists. I know this because IMagick then chokes on whatever.jpg because it DOESN't exist. a: you really ne

Re: [PHP] Re: file_Exists() and case

2008-11-23 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 13:12 -0600, Stan wrote: > This thread began because file_exists() WILL NOT tell that a file exists FOR > SURE and FOR CERTAIN if the file you check for happens to be named > whatever.jpg and whatever.JPG exists. I know this because IMagick then > chokes on whatever.jpg becau

[PHP] Re: file_Exists() and case

2008-11-23 Thread Stan
I do NOT want to create an empty file! "Nathan Rixham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Stan wrote: > > How can I do that, please? Do what? Detect, programmatically, FOR SURE and > > FOR CERTAIN, that a specific file exists. > > http://uk2.php.net/touch -- PHP Ge

Re: [PHP] Re: file_Exists() and case

2008-11-23 Thread Stan
This thread began because file_exists() WILL NOT tell that a file exists FOR SURE and FOR CERTAIN if the file you check for happens to be named whatever.jpg and whatever.JPG exists. I know this because IMagick then chokes on whatever.jpg because it DOESN't exist. -- PHP General Mailing List (h

[PHP] Re: file_Exists() and case

2008-11-23 Thread Nathan Rixham
Stan wrote: How can I do that, please? Do what? Detect, programmatically, FOR SURE and FOR CERTAIN, that a specific file exists. http://uk2.php.net/touch -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Re: file_Exists() and case

2008-11-23 Thread Stut
On 23 Nov 2008, at 18:53, Stan wrote: Let me attack this in a different way. This started because my camera names files whatever.JPG and my thumbnail generator generates thumbnail files whatever.jpg. Given my workstation (upon which I edit code and run a web browser) is W2K and my web serv

[PHP] Re: file_Exists() and case

2008-11-23 Thread Stan
Let me attack this in a different way. This started because my camera names files whatever.JPG and my thumbnail generator generates thumbnail files whatever.jpg. Given my workstation (upon which I edit code and run a web browser) is W2K and my web server is APACHE2 on UBUNTU, I sometimes have to

Re: [PHP] Re: file_exists

2007-11-15 Thread William Betts
It could present a problem depending on how the permissions are setup on the shared hosting and if open_base is in effect. If they can get the /etc/shadow file from a php being ran by apache then you have an issue, because apache would be running as root. Take the below example. include('templates

RE: [PHP] Re: file_exists

2007-11-15 Thread Instruct ICC
> > I think file_exists returns false for remote files ;) > > Even if it did (it doesn't: > http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/wrappers.ftp.php), I'd still rather not let > someone steal my /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow etc. files. > > As I said before. Some form of regexp or similar restriction is 1

[PHP] Re: file_exists

2007-11-15 Thread Colin Guthrie
Casey wrote: > I think file_exists returns false for remote files ;) Even if it did (it doesn't: http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/wrappers.ftp.php), I'd still rather not let someone steal my /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow etc. files. As I said before. Some form of regexp or similar restriction is 100

Re: [PHP] Re: file_exists

2007-11-15 Thread Casey
I think file_exists returns false for remote files ;) On Nov 15, 2007, at 2:33 AM, Colin Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Instruct ICC wrote: Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:20:52 + From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] file_exists

[PHP] Re: file_exists

2007-11-15 Thread Colin Guthrie
Instruct ICC wrote: > > >> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:20:52 + >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> CC: php-general@lists.php.net >> Subject: Re: [PHP] file_exists >> >> Philip Thompson wrote: >>> I've run into similar problems where I *thought* I was looking in the >>> correc

Re: [PHP] Re: file_exists()

2005-10-22 Thread Jonny Bergström
On 10/23/05, Oliver Grätz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I believe that the problem is not Windows being unable to look fpr unicode > files but PHP being unable to put th unicode string correctly in the command > line you are trying to execute. Check this by doing "exec('echo > >test.txt'.$path);"

Re: [PHP] Re: file_exists()

2005-10-22 Thread Richard Lynch
On Sat, October 22, 2005 7:12 pm, Jonny Bergström wrote: > Good idea yes. But apparantly Windows couldn't do it either. :-( > > function file_exists_windows($path) { > exec('dir ' . $path, $output, $return_status); > return $return_status == 0 ? true : false; // Windows dir will return > 0 when > s

Re: [PHP] Re: file_exists()

2005-10-22 Thread Jonny Bergström
Good idea yes. But apparantly Windows couldn't do it either. :-( function file_exists_windows($path) { exec('dir ' . $path, $output, $return_status); return $return_status == 0 ? true : false; // Windows dir will return 0 when something was found } It works with "normal" ascii file names, but oth

Re: [PHP] Re: file_exists()

2005-10-22 Thread Oliver Grätz
Robert Cummings schrieb: > You could try execing a shell command to give you the answer. I don't > know if it'll work, but worth a shot if you're in a bind. Yep, good idea. Use the native code of the OS ofr listing the file (dir, ls...) and parse the result. OLLi "Manche sagen, Compu

Re: [PHP] Re: file_exists()

2005-10-22 Thread Robert Cummings
On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 19:19, Oliver Grätz wrote: > Jonny Bergström schrieb: > > Hi > > > > file_exists('字.gif') always returns false. > > > > Can anyone help me find out a way to make it work also for these kind of > > filenames? > > > Unicode filenames can't be properly handled up to now for al

[PHP] Re: file_exists()

2005-10-22 Thread Oliver Grätz
Jonny Bergström schrieb: > Hi > > file_exists('字.gif') always returns false. > > Can anyone help me find out a way to make it work also for these kind of > filenames? > Unicode filenames can't be properly handled up to now for all I know. Perhaps waiting for PHP6 might be your only solution. OL

[PHP] Re: file_exists() to search for *.xml file with a wild card???

2004-07-20 Thread Jason Barnett
Scott Fletcher wrote: I would like to use the file_exists() or something similar to check for the existance of any of the xml files regardless of what filename it use. Like file_exist("*.xml") for example. Anyone know?? FletchSOD fnmatch() -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To

[PHP] Re: file_exists on Windows problem

2003-11-20 Thread Chris Williams
Thanks, that worked "David Strencsev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you're using NTFS file system... please make sure that the PHP's temporay > UPLOAD directory and SESSIONDATA directory are set with the correct > permissions. > I mean that the user IUSR_YOURCOMP

[PHP] Re: file_exists on Windows problem

2003-11-20 Thread David Strencsev
If you're using NTFS file system... please make sure that the PHP's temporay UPLOAD directory and SESSIONDATA directory are set with the correct permissions. I mean that the user IUSR_YOURCOMPUTER has write permissions in these directories. Hope it will help - David Strencsev -- PHP General Mai

Re: [PHP] Re: file_exists on Windows problem

2003-11-19 Thread Jason Wong
On Thursday 20 November 2003 13:05, Chris Williams wrote: > Thanks, but it make the test to move on to other things like, > size($filename) which tells me the file does not exist. print_r($_FILES) -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators *

[PHP] Re: file_exists on Windows problem

2003-11-19 Thread Chris Williams
Thanks, but it make the test to move on to other things like, size($filename) which tells me the file does not exist. Chris "Manuel VáZquez Acosta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > It may be an OS feature file_exists relies on... > But you can use is_uploaded_file() fu

[PHP] Re: file_exists on Windows problem

2003-11-19 Thread Manuel Vázquez Acosta
It may be an OS feature file_exists relies on... But you can use is_uploaded_file() function to check whether the file exists or not. Manu. "Chris Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'm again trying to understand differences in Apache and Windows installs of

[PHP] Re: file_exists for URLs

2002-10-14 Thread Owen Prime
Have a look at the fopen() function in the FileSystem Function section of the Docs. fopen() can open a file over http:// and I imagine it returns FALSE if it cant open it. If it doesn't return false, you could analyse the headers in $http_response_header. Hope this helps. Cheers, Owen Prime

[PHP] Re: file_exists

2002-05-06 Thread Austin Marshall
Craig Westerman wrote: > What am I doing wrong? I get parse error between first echo statement and > else. > > Thanks > > Craig ><> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > $fn = "image.gif"; > if (!file_exists($fn)) { > echo ""; > else > echo ""; > } > ?> > You've got your semicolons in the wrong spots.

[PHP] Re: file_exists problems

2001-12-01 Thread Fred
file_exists takes a string argument. /images/$filename is not a string. try "images/" . $filename instead. Fred Prolog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I had a script that was running beautiful that simply called up a database > and displayed th