Recognise If A Directory Exists?

[JustinMs66]

i am trying to get it so it recognises if a directory named "userfiles" exists.
this is what i have so far:

<?php
if (is_dir('userfiles')){
echo "userfile DOES exist";
else
echo "userfiles does NOT exist";
?>

and it outputs this:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ELSE in /index.php on line 4
but i can't see what i did wrong! please help!

[Drakla]

you have an open brace after the if - no matching closing brace

[Salkcin]

You can also check it by using the file_exists() function

[bradgrafelman]

Salkcin wrote:

You can also check it by using the file_exists() function

Except that now you're introducing some ambiguity - what if there's a file called "userfiles" but no directory with this name?

As Drakla pointed out, the crux of your problem is a missing closing brace (or you can omit the opening brace, since you only have ONE statement inside the conditionals, though I've learned that omitting braces isn't always recommended). For a coding example of the different control structures, visit this man page: [man]if[/man] (more specifically, this one will show you what your code should look like: [man]else[/man]).

[Salkcin]

what if there's a file called "userfiles" but no directory with this name?

then file_exists() would return false... :queasy: because the directory doesn´t exist!

[Drakla]

Salkcin wrote:

then file_exists() would return false... :queasy: because the directory doesn´t exist!

It would return true because the file exists with the same name.

[Salkcin]

yeah, youre right, sorry, my bad...

but on the other hand, how often do you guys delete the extension from the files? as long as you dont delete the extensions, file_exists() works.