RE: [PHP-DEV] Feature Request

pretty sure it's a bad idea because this function expected to return true/false Not to mention it is completely unnecessary since you can assign path to a var $file = '/path/file.txt'; if(!file_exists($file)){ // you already have access to $file } Dmitri Snytkine Web Developer Ultra Logistics, Inc. Phone: (888) 220-4640 x 2097 Fax: (888) 795-6642 E-Mail: dsnytkine@ultralogistics.com Web: www.ultralogistics.com "A Top 100 Logistics I.T. Provider in 2011" -----Original Message----- From: Keloran [mailto:ava3ar@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 11:19 AM To: PHP Internals Subject: [PHP-DEV] Feature Request I dont seem to have the karma for doing this in RFC so ill propose it here, and once karma make an RFC Is it possible to have a 2nd option on file_exists so that it returns the path you specified --Example $cFile = file_exists("/file/located/here.php", true); and if that exists it will return /file/located/here.php instead of true --Reason the reason for this is simple actually at the moment if you want to include a file for usage but want to check it exists you have todo the following if (file_exists("/file/located/here.php")) { $cFile = "/file/located/here.php"; } which can if your doing lots of checking alot of extra code for no reason, or if you want to use variables, lots of louse variables just for something that could be pulled from the request