Re: file_exists and array_merge_clobber
| From: | Jon Parise | Date: | Wed, 01 Oct 2003 08:06:51 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: file_exists and array_merge_clobber | ||
| References: | 1 2 3 4 | Groups: | php.internals |
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On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 10:00:23AM +0200, Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote:
> the whole point about this additional feature is that you can use it to
> check
> for include file existance before the actual include:
>
> if (file_exists("somefile.php", true)) {
> include "somefile.php";
> }
>
> IMHO this case is common enough so that it deserves a native C
> implementation
> either as an option to file_exists() or as a seperate function like
> file_exists_in_path()
If we're really going to go down this road, why not implement it in a
more generic, reusable way:
file_exists("somefile.php", ini_get('include_path'))
That would give us some additional mileage out of the change.
For the record, I'm -0 on this. I'd be -1 if it wasn't so obviously
optional.
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