Re: if test

please keep posts on list. jekillen wrote: > > On Jun 17, 2007, at 12:18 PM, Jochem Maas wrote: > >> jekillen wrote: >>> Hello again; >>> does the following test pass if the file is successfully included: >>> if( include( some file ) ) >>> >>> or does it pass with: >>> if( ! include( some file ) ) >> >> have you tried it? >> >> > Well, typically while waiting for a reply, which I thank you for, > I did browse through My Oreilly text Programming php > which did not have anything definitive, and looking at > the manual which did not have anything completely > satisfying, I did try it as if( include( some file ) ) and > it worked. But I also testing a file that I knew would > cause an error, sure enough the else conditional > did smear error messages all over the browser window. I have no idea what else condition you mean and I also have no idea what these 'error messages' are or what they have to do with the original question (which I had assumed was about the testing return values from an include statement ... something you could have gleaned from the manual and a couple of tests. > So I did: > if(file_exists( some file )) > { > include(some file); > } > Thanks again > JK >