Re: Directory or a file?
| From: | Matt McClanahan | Date: | Tue, 22 Aug 2000 23:32:41 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Directory or a file? | ||
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On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Adam Charnock wrote:
> Hi all. Is there a function that will tell you if a location is a file or a
> directory? Because files dont have to have an extention on the end of
> them. Eg:
>
> /my/server/www/data
>
> This could be a file called data or a folder called data. How can you make
> PHP tell the difference?
filetype() may be useful, which returns a string value for fifo, char,
dir, block, link, file, and unknown.
http://zend.php.net/manual/function.filetype.php
Matt