Syntax Question...

[Anon]

I need to check to see if a file exists in the directory a page is being called from. The trick is that this function is being defined in an include file, so I want to avoid having the "file_exists() function checking the include directory. I want to do something like the following... however, I am not sure how to call this function with the correct syntax.

if (file_exists(./nav_left.inc)) {
include("./nav_left.inc");
}

Any help, as always is very much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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include files are incluided, that means they become part of the script that they are included in. file_exists() will check the directory that the script is in, not the directory tha the include-file is in.