Thanks Tim, I had aready tried that and it didn't work either - go figure.
I did, however, manage to work around the problem by setting error_reporting(0) before the operation, then returning error_reporting to it's previous value, and continuing on my mery way. Thanks for all the suggestions, Joseph -----Original Message----- From: Tim Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: December 11, 2001 4:55 AM To: PHP General Mailing List; Joseph Fung Subject: [PHP] RE: @file problems w/ remote files How about wrapping the "@file(...);" in an "if(file_exists(...)) {...}" Doesn't seem to give an error at all , even without the @. I've tested this on non-existant domain names and with my firewall internet connection blocked. Tim http://www.chessish.com/ <http://www.chessish.com/> Thanks for any help - sorry for the miscommunication earlier. Joseph -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]