I'm looking for a way to see if a file exists on the local server. I would usually use if function exists but in this case it's not an option.
My question is how can I get number 2 to return true.
1.Returns true:
$acf_funcs = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/wp-content/themes/vac3/acf/page_meta/functions.php';
var_dump(file_exists($acf_funcs));
2.Returns false:
$acf_funcs = 'http://vac3:8888/wp-content/themes/vac3/acf/page_meta/functions.php';
var_dump(file_exists($acf_funcs));
You can't use file_exists -- You'll need to use get_headers
$headers = get_headers('http://vac3:8888/wp-content/themes/vac3/acf/page_meta/functions.php', 1);
$file_found = stristr($headers[0], '200');
To check the local server filesystem, you need to get the path component from the URL:
var_dump(file_exists($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . parse_url($acf_funcs, PHP_URL_PATH)));
In the above:
parse_url($acf_funcs, PHP_URL_PATH)
Returns: /wp-content/themes/vac3/acf/page_meta/functions.php and pre-pending $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] yields the same as your first example.
This will NOT however check if the file is available via http://vac3:8888.
I have files in a folder called 'thumbs'. They have names based on how they were named / renamed by their original authors. I would like to rename them to be two digit sequentially and I managed to find this PHP code:
function sequentialImages($path, $sort=false) {
$i = 1;
$files = glob($path."/{*.gif,*.jpg,*.jpeg,*.png}",GLOB_BRACE|GLOB_NOSORT);
if ( $sort !== false ) {
usort($files, $sort);
}
$count = count($files);
foreach ( $files as $file ) {
$newname = str_pad($i, strlen($count)+1, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT);
$ext = substr(strrchr($file, '.'), 1);
$newname = $path.'/'.$newname.'.'.$ext;
if ( $file != $newname ) {
rename($file, $newname);
}
$i++;
}
}
The php to execute this code is called 'rename.php' and it is found in a folder called 'admin'.
Therefore they are as follows
'admin' folder (contains rename.php')
'thumbs' folder (contains images with random names)
Both folders are on the same level.
How can I execute 'rename.php' if both are in different folders.
I tried to include $path = '../thumbs'; but it did not function.
Why isn't not working please?
I think I would start by checking if you're actually getting any errors reported at all. Since you're saying that you only get a blank page without any errors it could be as simple as enabling error reporting to see what actually goes wrong.
If, for instance, PHP doesn't have write access to the thumbs-folder you'll probably get a bunch of warnings when you try to rename the files. Check your php.ini and make sure that display_errors = On, run the script again and check if you get any helpful error messages.
Not sure if that helps you (or if display_errors is already set to on), but that would be the first step that I would try, which hopefully gives you a little more details about what's going wrong.
At the top of your function add:
if( !is_dir($path) ) {
die("error: $path is not a valid directory.");
// or whatever error handling method you prefer
}
If, for some reason, parent paths are disabled on your server, or if there is some other issue with the path, you will be notified here.
If that works fine, then step through your code and make sure that everything is as you expect it to be. eg: $files has the contents you expect, $newname is formatted properly, rename() is not returning false which indicates an error likely due to permissions, etc...
$path = realpath(__DIR__ . '/..') . '/thumbs';
realpath() function: http://php.net/manual/en/function.realpath.php
DIR (and other magic constants): http://php.net/manual/en/language.constants.predefined.php
I'm doing approximately like how this Q&A says:
$filenames = glob("../webform/components/*.inc");
foreach ($filenames as $filename)
{
include $filename;
echo $filename;
}
But instead of a bunch of included files, I'm only geting:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in include_once() ...
It appears that $filenames is empty. Why would that be the case? (I already checked that the folder contains .inc files!)
Do a var_dump($filenames). Do you get an empty array, e.g.
array(0) {
}
If so, the glob worked, but didn't find any files. If you get a boolean false, e.g.
bool(false)
then the glob failed completely - incorrect path, unreadable directory, etc...
If you are doing this in Drupal from within a module, using a relative path might not work as the index.php in DRUPAL_ROOT is where your code is run from.
You may want to change it to either (1) or (2) below:
// Assuming your webform folder is at sites/all/modules/[MODULE_NAME]/webform
$pattern = drupal_get_path('module', 'MODULE_NAME') . '/webform/components/*.inc'; // (1)
// Assuming the context is MODULE_NAME.module.
// $pattern = dirname(__FILE__) . '/webform/components/*.inc'; // (2)
$filenames = glob($pattern);
foreach ($filenames as $filename) {
include $filename;
echo $filename;
}
If you are doing this from outside a module and not from a script in the root of your Drupal site, use DRUPAL_ROOT to set the correct pattern to search for.
(Drupal 7)
I'm having a very weird issue with file_exists(). I'm using this function to check if 2 different files in the same folders do exist. I've double-checked, they BOTH do exist.
echo $relative . $url['path'] . '/' . $path['filename'] . '.jpg';
Result: ../../images/example/001-001.jpg
echo $relative . $url['path'] . '/' . $path['filename'] . '.' . $path['extension'];
Result: ../../images/example/001-001.PNG
Now let's use file_exists() on these:
var_dump(file_exists($relative . $url['path'] . '/' . $path['filename'] . '.jpg'));
Result: bool(false)
var_dump(file_exists($relative . $url['path'] . '/' . $path['filename'] . '.' . $path['extension']));
Result: bool(true)
I don't get it - both of these files do exist. I'm running Windows, so it's not related to a case-sensitive issue. Safe Mode is off.
What might be worth mentioning though is that the .png one is uploaded by a user via FTP, while the .jpg one is created using a script. But as far as I know, that shouldn't make a difference.
Any tips?
Thanks
file_exists() just doesn't work with HTTP addresses.
It only supports filesystem paths (and FTP, if you're using PHP5.)
Please note:
Works :
if (file_exists($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/folder/test.txt")
echo "file exists";
Does not work:
if (file_exists("www.mysite.com/folder/test.txt")
echo "file exists";
Results of the file_exists() are cached, so try using clearstatcache(). If that not helped, recheck names - they might be similar, but not same.
I found that what works for me to check if a file exists (relative to the current php file it is being executed from) is this piece of code:
$filename = 'myfile.jpg';
$file_path_and_name = dirname(__FILE__) . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . "{$filename}";
if ( file_exists($file_path_and_name) ){
// file exists. Do some magic...
} else {
// file does not exists...
}
Just my $.02: I just had this problem and it was due to a space at the end of the file name. It's not always a path problem - although that is the first thing I check - always. I could cut and paste the file name into a shell window using the ls -l command and of course that locates the file because the command line will ignore the space where as file_exists does not. Very frustrating indeed and nearly impossible to locate were it not for StackOverflow.
HINT: When outputting debug statements enclose values with delimiters () or [] and that will show a space pretty clearly. And always remember to trim your input.
It's because of safe mode. You can turn it off or include the directory in safe_mode_include_dir. Or change file ownership / permissions for those files.
php.net: file_exists()
php.net: safe mode
Try using DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR instead of '/' as separator. Windows uses a different separator for file system paths (backslash) than Linux and Unix systems.
A very simple trick is here that worked for me.
When I write following line, than it returns false.
if(file_exists('/my-dreams-files/'.$_GET['article'].'.html'))
And when I write with removing URL starting slash, then it returns true.
if(file_exists('my-dreams-files/'.$_GET['article'].'.html'))
I have a new reason this happens - I am using PHP inside a Docker container with a mounted volume for the codebase which resides on my local host machine.
I was getting file_exists == FALSE (inside Composer autoload), but if I copied the filepath into terminal - it did exist! I tried the clearstatche(), checked safe-mode was OFF.
Then I remembered the Docker volume mapping: the absolute path on my local host machine certainly doesn't exist inside the Docker container - which is PHP's perspective on the world.
(I keep forgetting I'm using Docker, because I've made shell functions which wrap the docker run commands so nicely...)
It can also be a permission problem on one of the parent folders or the file itself.
Try to open a session as the user running your webserver and cd into it. The folder must be accessible by this user and the file must be readable.
If not, php will return that the file doesn't exist.
have you tried manual entry. also your two extensions seem to be in different case
var_dump(file_exists('../../images/example/001-001.jpg'));
var_dump(file_exists('../../images/example/001-001.PNG'));
A custom_file_exists() function inspired by #Timur, #Brian, #Doug and #Shahar previous answers:
function custom_file_exists($file_path=''){
$file_exists=false;
//clear cached results
//clearstatcache();
//trim path
$file_dir=trim(dirname($file_path));
//normalize path separator
$file_dir=str_replace('/',DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR,$file_dir).DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;
//trim file name
$file_name=trim(basename($file_path));
//rebuild path
$file_path=$file_dir."{$file_name}";
//If you simply want to check that some file (not directory) exists,
//and concerned about performance, try is_file() instead.
//It seems like is_file() is almost 2x faster when a file exists
//and about the same when it doesn't.
$file_exists=is_file($file_path);
//$file_exists=file_exists($file_path);
return $file_exists;
}
This answer may be a bit hacky, but its been working for me -
$file = 'path/to/file.jpg';
$file = $_SERVER['REQUEST_SCHEME'].'://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].'/'.$file;
$file_headers = #get_headers($file);
if($file_headers[0] == 'HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found') {
$exists = false;
}else{
$exists = true;
}
apparently $_SERVER['REQUEST_SCHEME'] is a bit dicey to use with IIS 7.0 + PHP 5.3 so you could probably look for a better way to add in the protocol.
I found this answer here http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-exists.php#75064
I spent the last two hours wondering what was wrong with my if statement: file_exists($file) was returning false, however I could call include($file) with no problem.
It turns out that I didn't realize that the php include_path value I had set in the .htaccess file didn't carry over to file_exists, is_file, etc.
Thus:
<?PHP
// .htaccess php_value include_path '/home/user/public_html/';
// includes lies in /home/user/public_html/includes/
//doesn't work, file_exists returns false
if ( file_exists('includes/config.php') )
{
include('includes/config.php');
}
//does work, file_exists returns true
if ( file_exists('/home/user/public_html/includes/config.php') )
{
include('includes/config.php');
}
?>
Just goes to show that "shortcuts for simplicity" like setting the include_path in .htaccess can just cause more grief in the long run.
In my case, the problem was a misconception of how file_exists() behaves with symbolic links and .. ("dotdot" or double period) parent dir references. In that regard, it differs from functions like require, include or even mkdir().
Given this directory structure:
/home/me/work/example/
www/
/var/www/example.local/
tmp/
public_html -> /home/me/work/example/www/
file_exists('/var/www/example.local/public_html/../tmp/'); would return FALSE even though the subdir exists as we see, because the function traversed up into /home/me/work/example/ which does not have that subdir.
For this reason, I have created this function:
/**
* Resolve any ".." ("dotdots" or double periods) in a given path.
*
* This is especially useful for avoiding the confusing behavior `file_exists()`
* shows with symbolic links.
*
* #param string $path
*
* #return string
*/
function resolve_dotdots( string $path ) {
if (empty($path)) {
return $path;
}
$source = array_reverse(explode(DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, $path));
$balance = 0;
$parts = array();
// going backwards through the path, keep track of the dotdots and "work
// them off" by skipping a part. Only take over the respective part if the
// balance is at zero.
foreach ($source as $part) {
if ($part === '..') {
$balance++;
} else if ($balance > 0) {
$balance--;
} else {
array_push($parts, $part);
}
}
// special case: path begins with too many dotdots, references "outside
// knowledge".
if ($balance > 0) {
for ($i = 0; $i < $balance; $i++) {
array_push($parts, '..');
}
}
$parts = array_reverse($parts);
return implode(DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, $parts);
}
I just encountered this same problem and I solved it in a mysterious way. After inserting a a filepath I copied from Windows File explorer. file_exists() keeps returning false continuously, but if I copy same path from VSCode editor it works perfectly.
After dumping variables with var_dump($path); I noticed something mysterious.
For path I copied from file explorer it shows length 94.
For path I copied from VSCode Editor it shows length 88.
Both path look same length on my code Editor.
My suggestion: if string contain hidden characters, it may fail and not work.
In my script, I set the include path (so another part of the application can include files too), check that a file exists, and include it.
However, after I set the include path, file_exists() reports that the file does not exist, yet I can still include the same file.
<?php
$include_path = realpath('path/to/some/directory');
if(!is_string($include_path) || !is_dir($include_path))
{
return false;
}
set_include_path(
implode(PATH_SEPARATOR, array(
$include_path,
get_include_path()
))
);
// Bootstrap file is located at: "path/to/some/directory/bootstrap.php".
$bootstrap = 'bootstrap.php';
// Returns "bool(true)".
var_dump(file_exists($include_path . '/' . $bootstrap));
// Returns "bool(false)".
var_dump(file_exists($bootstrap));
// This led me to believe that the include path was not being set properly.
// But it is. The next thing is what puzzles me.
require_once $bootstrap;
// Not only are there no errors, but the file is included successfully!
I can edit the include path and include files without providing the absolute filepath, but I cannot check whether they exist or not. This is really annoying as every time a file that does not exist is called, my application results in a fatal error, or at best a warning (using include_once()).
Turning errors and warnings off is not an option, unfortunately.
Can anyone explain what is causing this behaviour?
file_exists does nothing more than say whether a file exists (and the script is allowed to know it exists), resolving the path relative to the cwd. It does not care about the include path.
Yes Here is the Simplest way to implement this
$file_name = //Pass File name
if ( file_exists($file_name) )
{
echo "Exist";
}
else
{
echo "Not Exist";
}