Question

I have been trying to find if a file_exist in the directory. If not i want to use a different image. But as i am using the file_exists function it always returns false.

The code i used is

while($r=mysql_fetch_row($res))
    {  
        if(!file_exists('http://localhost/dropbox/lib/admin/'.$r[5]))
            {
                $file='http://localhost/dropbox/lib/admin/images/noimage.gif';
            }
        else
            $file='http://localhost/dropbox/lib/admin/'.$r[5];}

But the function always return false even if the file exits. I checked that by using

<img src="<?php echo 'http://localhost/dropbox/lib/admin/'.$r[5]; ?>" />

This displayed the image correctly.

Please Someone Help Me

Answer 1

You are passing URL to the file_exists function which is wrong. Instead of that pass your local path of the folder.

while($r=mysql_fetch_row($res))
{  
 if(!file_exists('/dropbox/lib/admin/'.$r[5]))
 {
  $file='/dropbox/lib/admin/images/noimage.gif';
 }
 else
 $file='/dropbox/lib/admin/'.$r[5];
}