A link to download the sample script explaining the problem is available at:
ftp://www.gemini1consulting.com/pub/tekhelp/test_file_exists.phps
You of course will need to change the extension to php.
At 06:50 PM 7/11/01 +0000, you wrote:
>ID: 12033
>User updated by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Reported By: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Old Summary: file_exists doesn't work properly with variables
>Status: Open
>Bug Type: Any
>Operating System: Win 95
>PHP Version: 4.0.5
>New Comment:
>
>The example in my previous submission did not show the apparent bug. The
>example script did not match exactly what was going on in my actual script.
>
>The problem seems to only occur when two file_exists statements are used
>in a row and the path argument used uses the same "slash style" (forward
>or backward) each time.
>
>
>An example demonstrating the problem be dowloaded here:
>ftp://www.gemini1consulting.com/pub/tekhelp/test_file_exists.phps
>
>(You will need to change the extension to php for it to work).
>
>Previous Comments:
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>[2001-07-11 03:07:11] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>I cannot reproduce this under Windows 2000 with PHP 4.0.6
>
>Do you get the same error if you use a literal value instead of a variable.
>
>ie.
>var_dump (file_exists ("c:/some_random_file_name"));
>or
>var_dump (file_exists ("c:\\some_random_file_name"));
>
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>[2001-07-11 01:00:59] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>The following won't work in Win95:
>
>$path="c:/test.bat";
>if(file_exists($path)) {print "file $path exists"}
>
>This will report a file existing even though it doesn't. You might think
>that this is because we are using forwardslashes in windows BUT IF you
>then parse $path to replace the forwardslashes with backslashes (using a
>regular expression) it still doesn't work. BUT if you do this:
>$path="\"".$path."\"";
>(leaving $path with forward slashes) it does work properly.
>
>I suppose this is a bug?
>
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