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file_exists

(PHP 3, PHP 4 )

file_exists -- Checks whether a file or directory exists

Description

bool file_exists ( string filename)

Returns TRUE if the file or directory specified by filename exists; FALSE otherwise.

On windows, use //computername/share/filename or \\computername\share\filename to check files on network shares.

Example 1. Testing whether a file exists
<?php $filename = '/path/to/foo.txt'; if (file_exists($filename)) { print "The file $filename exists"; } else { print "The file $filename does not exist"; } ?>

Note: The results of this function are cached. See clearstatcache() for more details.

Note: This function will not work on remote files as the file to be examined must be accessible via the servers filesystem.

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