Question

I am going crazy with this one

I have this folders and files structure

• /
  • /projects
    • /mytest
      • /install
        • /index.php
      • /product
  • /resources

So, inside my install/index.php file I am trying to verify if /product folder does exist. I know that the folder exists, but looks like PHP doesn’t. My code:

if(file_exists('../../mytest/product') && is_dir('../../mytest/product')) {
    echo 'Folder exists!';
} else {
    echo 'PHP is blind or something!';
}

Maybe I am very tired, but I just cannot figure out what is wrong. Some rested minds here maybe will see the problem. Thanks!

Answer 1

With your current directory structure:

/
    /projects
        /mytest
            /install
                /index.php
            /product
    /resources

The following code works just fine:

<?php
if(file_exists('../product') && is_dir('../product')) {
    echo 'Folder exists!';
} else {
    echo 'PHP is blind or something!';
}
?>

As does your current code:

<?php
if(file_exists('../../mytest/product') && is_dir('../../mytest/product')) {
    echo 'Folder exists!';
} else {
    echo 'PHP is blind or something!';
}
?>

Both solutions outputted “Folder exists!“, so the issue is related with folder permissions.

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You need to confirm:

• Owner for that folder

Remember that the owner of the directory has to be the same of the script user, otherwise this function will always return false when PHP is running in safe_mode..

• open_basedir

Limit the files that can be opened by PHP to the specified directory-tree..