Re: link vs file
| From: | Shawn McKenzie | Date: | Mon, 17 Dec 2018 21:52:27 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: link vs file | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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link — Create a hard link
is_link — Tells whether the filename is a symbolic link
Look up the difference between hard and soft/symbolic links.
-Shawn
On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 3:27 PM Jeffry Killen <jekillen@prodigy.net> wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I am trying to get a feel for the difference
> between is_link and is_file.
>
> So I ran this code: the result is in comment block at the bottom
>
> <?php
> if(link('index.php', 'indexLink') === false)
> {
> print "link failed";
> }
> else
> {
> $_linkRes = 'false';
> $_fileRes = 'false';
> if(is_link('indexLink'))
> {
> $_linkRes = 'true';
> }
> else if(is_file('indexLink'))
> {
> $_fileRes = 'true';
> }
> print 'indexLink: link; '.$_linkRes."<br>";
> print 'indexLink: file; '.$_fileRes;
> }
> /*
> output:
> indexLink: link; false
> indexLink: file; true
> */
> ?>
>
> Why is it returning false for link and true for file?
>
> This is an apache/php v 5.3x installation on Mac Yosemite.
>
> Forgive my ignorance, but I have not worked with links up
> to this point. If I load http://localhost/indexLink I get a ton
> of raw code and some html rendered.
>
> Thank you for time and attention
> JK
>