Re: is_readable fails with a variable parameter

On Tue, 2015-09-29 at 13:19 -0400, Tommy Peterson wrote: > > That is the reason. I assumed the file already existed. is_readable is part > > of the cache affected functions: > > > > http://php.net/manual/en/function.clearstatcache.php > > > > Try doing that and see if that makes a difference. > > > > I thought of that too actually. The PHP API has a clear cache and I tried that. Didn't > work. Never knew of clearstatcache(). But I just tried it too and there is no difference. I has to > be the user/permissions. I will just have to wait for that sys admin guy to become available. I just > wanted to make sure there wasn't something I was doing/not doing. Thanks for you all your help > here. > > This might seem a little redundant given that you've already checked the string length of your path, but bear with me. Have you compared in code (with == or ===) the variable containing the path, and the actual path that works when you hard-code it in? It might be something as simply daft as (I've done this more times than I care to admit!) a typo in the actual path on the server. I've used is_readable() a lot before, and never had it fail in quite this way. A final thought; is the file you're checking on a different filesystem, maybe one that is accessed through a stream or via FUSE? Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk