Question

I am trying to check if a file exists on the server. The difficulty that I am having is that file_exists returns false for a file that I know exists on the server.

My server is configured withsafe_mode = on in php.ini. Because of this I’ve added the directory that contains the file I want to check on using

include_path=".:/path/to/dir"

I’ve also added the path to

safe_mode_include_dir = /path/to/dir

file_exists("/path/to/dir/file") still returns FALSE.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

If you have the ability to do so, disable safe_mode. It has been deprecated by the PHP development team, and is gone as of PHP 5.4.0, so you will need to stop depending on it sooner or later.

If you must use safe_mode, add the directory to open_basedir, not include_path.