note 21500 deleted from function.filetype by vincent

Note Submitter: brendan@tetrinet.cc ---- RE: no.timm@spam.juvik.please.org >> The way I use to check if a $file is >> a directory or not, is to see if it >> has an extension. If a directory >> name has a "." in it, this >> wouldn't work, but there are ways >> to go around that I think. Anyway, this >> is it: >> >> $ext = strrchr($file,'.'); // check for extension >> if ($ext == "") { // if no extension is found >> echo $file; // print filename >> } Alot more secure and reliable way to do this would be... if(!is_dir($file) && file_exists($file)) { echo $file; } You wouldn't use is_file() as it wont return true if the file is 0 bytes depending on the platform.