Returns TRUE if the file or directory specified by filename exists; FALSE otherwise.
On windows, use //computername/share/filename or \\computername\share\filename to check files on network shares.
<?php
$filename = '/path/to/foo.txt';
if (file_exists($filename)) {
print "The file $filename exists";
} else {
print "The file $filename does not exist";
}
?>The results of this function are cached. See clearstatcache() for more details.
This function will not work on remote files as the file to be examined must be accessible via the servers filesystem.
See also is_readable(), is_writable(), is_file() and file().
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