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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] file_exists and array_merge_clobber
From: jhannus@visualconceptsinc.com ("Justin Hannus")

I agree with Wez, what if you are searching for a file with a relative file
path, e.g:

<?php
if (file_exists("somefile.php"))
// ...

would return true if "somefile.php" is not in the current directory but is
in your include path, not what you expected. Besides, you can easily
implement this functionality in php.


-Justin Hannus

"Wez Furlong" <wez@thebrainroom.com> wrote in message
news:021801c38741$b34407f0$0702a8c0@titan...
> Using the include path for file_exists doesn't sound useful to me, for
> similar reasons as those for not allowing to write a file in the include
> path - which file are you actually writing to?  What if someone puts a
file
> with the same name earlier in the include path and so on.
>
> What is probably better is some kind of generic path-searching function
that
> returns the full path to the first file in the include_path (or some other
> path).
>
> --Wez.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lukas Smith" <smith@backendmedia.com>
> To: <internals@lists.php.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 11:32 AM
> Subject: [PHP-DEV] file_exists and array_merge_clobber
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > We have a new intern who got right to work to improve file_exists() to
> > also be able to check the include_path similar to how fopen() can.