Question

I’m testing some caching code in php:

   if (is_readable($cachefile) && (time() - $cachetime
     < filemtime($cachefile))) 
  {
            include($cachefile);
   […]

What it should do:
Run include only if $cachefile already exists. If not it’s supposed to proceed without trying to include $cachefile.

What it does:
It tries to load $cachefile every time therefore creating a php warning when it does not exist.

I have no idea how to fix it since I tried just about everything that would normally prevent include from being excecuted. Can someone help?
Thanks!

Answer 1

Try like this

if (isset($cachefile) && ((time() - $cachetime) < filemtime($cachefile))) 
{
    include($cachefile);
}

you can use isset or file_exists functions, here is documentations =>

http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-exists.php

http://php.net/manual/en/function.isset.php

Note: Wrap time() - $cachetime in () , also make sure $cachefile‘s url is right