RE: [PHP] Problem with is_dir function

I believe the path is of the correct format. So for example, if $user_dir = /home/sites/home/users/demodocs/web/userforum/user and $user_dir exists, then is_dir($user_dir) should = 1 however, if $user_dir doesn't exist, then is_dir($user_dir) should = 0 Isn't this the correct logic? Roger -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Brampton [mailto:andrew@bramp.freeserve.co.uk] Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 11:24 AM To: Roger Lewis; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Problem with is_dir function 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" <re.lewis@attbi.com> To: "Php-General" <php-general@lists.php.net> 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: &quot;stat failed for > /home/sites/home/users/demodocs/web/userforum/user > (errno=2 - No such file or directory)&quot; 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