Re: Test if File Exist, if not, use default file name

From: Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 01:32:18 +0000
Subject: Re: Test if File Exist, if not, use default file name
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Try this: if (file_exists("filename")) { echo "Error"; } -AL > > What I would like to have the script do is to check if a variable was > passed, and to check if the file name passed actually exist. If either > case is false then I would like to have it check if the file testQA > exist and if so then the script would run using this test file, if not > then the script would just terminate giving the user an error message. > I was wondering how you would do this? > > Right now I have it semi-working, but it is very convoluted and if the > variable is not passed it displays a "Warning: Undefined variable: > questionFileName in > c:\server\apache\htdocs\survey\questionanswer.phtml". Ideally it > would not display this message and just check if the testQA file is > around and if not then just terminate with an error message of my > choice. > > -Thanks for any ideas, > Andrew V. Romero > To reply personally, remove all numbers from my address. > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >

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