Question

I can’t seem to get the following code to work?

$playerfileLocation = "../wp-content/gallery/playerphotos/' . $playerid . '.jpg";
if(file_exits($playerfileLocation)) 
echo "The file File exists";
else
echo "The file File does not exist";

The “playerid” field is a number that gets passed through.

I just can’t seem to get it working. Urgh!

Answer 1

You have mismatch of quotes. Try this code.

$playerfileLocation = "../wp-content/gallery/playerphotos/" . $playerid . ".jpg";
if(file_exists($playerfileLocation)) 
echo "The file File exists";
else
echo "The file File does not exist";

Update:
Actually I would suggest using below code as whenever PHP see double-quotes, it tries to parse anything in between it, which is not required in this case. This is a small optimization in performance.

$playerfileLocation = '../wp-content/gallery/playerphotos/' . $playerid . '.jpg';
if(file_exists($playerfileLocation)) 
echo "The file File exists";
else
echo "The file File does not exist";

Also, to just check if file exists and if not display default image use the following code:

$playerfileLocation = '../wp-content/gallery/playerphotos/' . $playerid . '.jpg';
$defaultfileLocation = '../wp-content/gallery/playerphotos/default.jpg';
if (!file_exists($playerfileLocation)) {
    $playerfileLocation = $defaultfileLocation;
}