If you looked at the usercomments for file_exists you would see it saying to
look at the fopen page for a example....
In the usercomments for fopen there is a post saying this:
jamie.watt at murchison.com.au
03-Feb-2000 01:39
To check if a file exists using http or ftp use the following:
<pre>
$fp = @fopen("http://www.someurl.com/testfile.php3","r";);
if ($fp)
{ print"The file exists!"; }
else
{ print"The file does not exist"; }
</pre>
Note: The "@" in front of fopen suppresses the error output of the function.
I hope this clears up some confusion.
There is your answer :)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen of Blank Canvas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 4:42 PM
Subject: [PHP] Does remote file(image) exist ?
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Sorry I have no example code at all for this at all, I know some people
> don't like that but I just do not know where to start so am asking for
> help.
>
> I have a system there users can put a picture of themselves by method of
> URL in a MySQL field, however many of this image URL's do not work as
> users type them in wrong. So what I wanted to do was find a way to test
> to see if the image can be accessed, then if not display a default
> image.
>
> Hope that makes sense, anyone already done something like this and want
> to share code :-)
>
> Stephen
>
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