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LogicLooking
LogicLooking

Reputation: 928

file_exists in php is wrong ... or am I wrong?

So I have a directory such as:

Something
|_  Setup.php
|_  development.php

Inside of Setup.php I did the following:

if(file_exists('development.php')){
    // do something.
}

But the issue is that it never sees the development.php file, when I do an else{} statement to see if maybe I spelt it wrong it goes straight to the else statement.

How does this file NOT exist? It's spelt properly, am I missing something?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 86

Answers (1)

Jacob Budin
Jacob Budin

Reputation: 10003

Your working directory is probably not what you think it is.

Try using the __DIR__ magic constant:

if(file_exists(__DIR__ . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'development.php')){
    // do something.
}

Your PHP file's parent directory will be substituted where __DIR__ appears.

Upvotes: 1

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