Checking if Directory exists

[Anon]

Hi!!

This is just a general question...

Is there a way to check if a directory exists and if it does, return something like:

"yay the directory exists", and if it doesnt exist return "awwe..the directory doesnt exist"?

If anyone could help me with this it'd be great.

Thanks in advance,

Andrew

[mrmufin]

You can use the is_dir("directory") function. A quick example:

if(is_dir("/home/mrmufin")) {
echo "Directory exists.";
} else {
echo "No directory.";
}

One caveat: the process owner under which the PHP script runs MUST be able to see the directory. For example, on my system the directory '/root/bin' DOES exist, but since the PHP interpreter runs within the webserver daemon, and the webserver is NOT allowed to view files within '/root/', the same example above will return false.

[Anon]

opendir
(PHP 3, PHP 4 )

<?php
if ($dir = @opendir("/directory"))
{
echo "yay the directory exists";
closedir($dir);
} else {
echo "boo the directory does not exist";
}
?>

[m3rlin2002]

Thanks alot 🙂

Im running IIS so i just specified the full directory path and it works great 🙂

Andrew