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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 *