Remote File Verification

[Fotan]

Hi,

My name is Matt and I am new to the forum. At least I'm new to posting to the forum... :-)

I am trying to verify if a .jpg file exists on a remote server through PHP, but am having trouble finding a command that works remotely. All I need to do is see if a file exists, if so display it, if not then display a "No Image Found" graphic.

Any help is appreciated.

Matt

[Jona]

[font=trebuchet ms]This code will only work if url_fwrappers (or something similar to that, I forget what it is exactly) is enabled in php.ini, and your PHP version is 4.3 or greater (I believe). Also, you cannot be running in safe mode for this to work.[/font]

<?php

$file = "http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/ww/m6v9b.gif";

 if(@file_get_contents($file)){
     echo "File exists.";
  } else {
     echo "File does not exist.";
  }
?>

[Fotan]

That did it. I'm still having an issue calling the picture from a function I wrote, but I'm sure it's something I'm doing with the variables rather than anything else...

Thanks again,

Matt

[Jona]

[font=trebuchet ms]You could set it up like the following...[/font]

<?php
function getimage($img){
 if(@file_get_contents($img)){
     return "$img";
  } else {
     return "/images/not_found.gif";
  }
}
?> 

[font=trebuchet ms]And use something like this for the image.[/font]

<img src="<?php echo getimage("http://www.somesite.com/someimage.jpg"); ?>" alt="Some image" />