note 26757 added to function.file-exists

My previous post about a problem with file_exists() generated some reactions. Actually I received several e-mails from people who got the same problem and wanted to know how I fixed it. With further experimenting, I found that the problem is not related with PHP 4.2.3, but with Apache 2. file_exists() works as expected with PHP 4.2.3 under Apache 1.3. As my previous post says, I used getcwd() to fix the problem. With some testing I found that under Apache 2 file_exists (and several other similar functions) will only work on absolute paths, so I formed absolute paths out of my relative ones. Example: Original code: file_exists ("somedir/somefile.php"); // Always returns false Modified code: file_exists (getcwd()."/somedir/somefile.php"); // Works as expected That said, I knew PHP under Apache 2 was only experimental but I originally though it would work better, but I found just too much problem with that configuration to be usefull. Furthermore, some of the Apache and PHP modules I needed wasn't working fine or not at all with Apache 2. So I stopped experimenting further with Apache 2 and went back to Apache 1.3. The problem is not with Apache 2 itself (I found it to be a good software) but from the fact that it is not yet enough widely supported, including PHP which development for Apache 2 isn't complete. You are free to contact me for other comments about this, but please do not ask me about how I fixed that anymore, my only solution is the one above. Tom :) -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file-exists.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+26757 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+26757 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+26757