File check during uploading

[Anon]

Hi
While uploading a file to a specific directory,how to check if that file is already exist in that directory or not.
But using function file_exists($filename),only checks the file exist in the client from which the upload takes place.But i want to check before copying the file into the server directory. That is i want to check before issuing copying it.
copy($filename,"filepath to copy/$file_name");

Is there any way to check in the server side.

Thanks in advance for your help.

srini

[Anon]

http://www.php.net/manual/function.file-exists.php

says:
"file_exists() will not work on remote files; the file to be examined must be accessible via the server's filesystem"

which is the opposite of what you said the function does. Have you tried the function?

[Anon]

Use the function... it works and next time try before asking :-))

Basicly the funciton looks if the file you specified exists... I recently learned, that you can use this function also to check if a file being uploaded exists ... but you still can specify your server directory to search in ...

cya Rob