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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] file_exists and array_merge_clobber
From: hartmut@php.net (Hartmut Holzgraefe)

Justin Hannus wrote:
> 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.

its going to be optional, not mandatory ... but that has already been answered

the whole point about this additional feature is that you can use it to check
for include file existance before the actual include:

if (file_exists("somefile.php", true)) {
   include "somefile.php";
}

IMHO this case is common enough so that it deserves a native C implementation
either as an option to file_exists() or as a seperate function like
file_exists_in_path()


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Hartmut Holzgraefe  <hartmut@php.net>