what values of $user_dir are you passing to is_dir?
echo them out before the test, you might be sending paths which are most
certainly not directories... for example:
c:\windows
/home/blah
would be valid, but
c:\windows\win.com
/home/blah/myfile
http://somesite/somepath
ftp://someftpserver/incoming
are invalid
Hope this helps
Andrew
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Php-General" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 7:06 PM
Subject: [PHP] Problem with is_dir function
> I'm having a problem with the is_dir function, or maybe I don't understand
> how it supposed to work. I'm using the following code to check whether or
> not a directory called $user_dir exists. If it exists, I am returned the
> proper message. But if it doesn't exist, I get the following error
message
> that says that it doesn't exist. (I already knew that!)
>
>
> <ERROR Number="8" Description="Error: "stat failed for
> /home/sites/home/users/demodocs/web/userforum/user
> (errno=2 - No such file or directory)" on line 175 of
> /home/sites/home/users/demo/web/user_forum/messages.php."/
>
>
> Can someone please explain what I am doing wrong here, and how to return a
> usable value if the directory doesn't exist.
>
>
> $test = is_dir($user_dir);
> if($test){echo "You have a user directory. It is $user_dir";}
> else{echo "Your user directory doesn't exist";
> return;}
>
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Roger Lewis
>
>
>
>
> --
> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/)
> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
>
>
--
PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/)
To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
