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sark9012
sark9012

Reputation: 5747

Checking if file exists

I have a piece of code that checks whether an image exists in the file system and if so, displays it.

if (file_exists(realpath(dirname(__FILE__) . $user_image))) {
    echo '<img src="'.$user_image.'" />';
} 
else {
    echo "no image set";    
}

If I echo $user_image out, copy and paste the link into the browser, the image is there. However, here, the 'no image set' is always being reached.

The $user_image contents are http://localhost:8888/mvc/images/users/1.jpg

Some of these functions not needed?

Any ideas? Broken code or a better way of doing it (that works!)?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 287

Answers (2)

Twisted1919
Twisted1919

Reputation: 2499

Beside @hek2mgl answer which i think is correct, i also think you should switch to is_file() instead of file_exists(). Also, you can go a bit further like:

if(is_file(dirname(__FILE__). '/' . $user_image) && false !== @getimagesize(dirname(__FILE__) . '/'. $user_image)) {
   // image is fine
} else {
   // it isn't
}

L.E:1
Oh great, now you are telling us what $user_image contains? Couldn't you do it from the start, could you? So you will have to:

$userImagePath = parse_url($user_image, PHP_URL_PATH);
$fullPath = dirname(__FILE__) . ' / ' . $userImagePath;
if($userImagePath && is_file($fullPath) && false !== @getimagesize($fullPath)) {
   // is valid
}else {
   // it isn't
}

L.E: 2 Also, storing the entire url is not a good practice, what happens when you switch domain names? Try to store only the relative path, like /blah/images/image.png instead of http://locathost/blah/images/image.png

Upvotes: 2

hek2mgl
hek2mgl

Reputation: 158250

You missed the directory separator / between path and filename. Add it:

if (file_exists(realpath(dirname(__FILE__) . '/' . $user_image))) {

Note that dirname() will return the directory without a / at the end.

Upvotes: 2

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