How to Check If a Directory Exists? "Is_Dir", "File_Exists" or Both

How do I check if a directory exists? is_dir, file_exists or both?

Both would return true on Unix systems - in Unix everything is a file, including directories. But to test if that name is taken, you should check both. There might be a regular file named 'foo', which would prevent you from creating a directory name 'foo'.

Check if directory exists, make directory

Change this :

if(!is_dir($new_path)) {
    echo "The Directory {$new_path} exists";
    }

to this :

if(is_dir($new_path)) {
    echo "The Directory {$new_path} exists";
    }

Try and tell me the result :)

Check whether a directory exists in PHP

Should work correctly. From is_dir() documentation:

Returns TRUE if the filename exists
and is a directory, FALSE
otherwise.

Well, anyway if it doesn't try this:

if(file_exists($dir) && is_dir($dir))

BTW. results of these functions are cached in stat cache. Use clearstatcache() to clean that cache.

How to use file_exists function for a directory outside of current folder?

The solution was the use the ABSOLUTE file path, which I found using __FILE__

So the correct path was :

<?php 

$filename = "/root/26/987654321/htdocs/websites/WEBSITE/190/$info[product_id].jpg"; 

if (file_exists($filename)) { echo 'Found'; } else { echo 'Not Found'; }

?>

Note actual file path has been altered for security reasons, the path provided above is for illustrative purposes.

How to check if file exists in a folder, if not move onto next folder to check php

<?php foreach ($userdetails as $key => $userdetail): ?>
     <tr>
         <td><?php echo $userdetail['username']; ?></td>
         <td>
<?php
    foreach(
      [
        'admin/assets/images/admin/' => 'admin',
        'vendor/assets/images/vendor/' => 'vendor',
        'customer/assets/images/Customer/' => 'customer',
      ] as $path => $stub
    ) {
      $filename = $path . $userdetail['user_image']; // e.g. admin/assets/images/vendor/foobar.jpg
      $url = 'assets/images/' . $stub . '/' . $userdetails['user_image']; // e.g. assets/images/vendor/foobar.jpg

      if ( file_exists( $filename ) ) {
?>
             <img src="<?= $url ?>" style="width: 50px; height: 50px;">
<?php
        break;
      }
    }
?>
        </td>
      </tr>
<?php endforeach ?>

php check file_exists() out of the third level to the root dir

From the PHP docs for is_dir(), regarding the first passed parameter:

Path to the file. If filename is a relative filename, it will be checked relative to the current working directory. If filename is a symbolic or hard link then the link will be resolved and checked. If you have enabled safe mode, or open_basedir further restrictions may apply.

In other words, if you specify a relative path, it will be considered relative to the currently executing script, which is why your script works in the first case, but not in the second. Personally I perfer to use full paths when operating on files and directories to make sure I know what I'm pointing at. To poke around a bit and see what I'm talking about try this:

<?php
$current_dir = dirname(__FILE__);
$path = realpath( $current_dir . '/../images' );

var_dump( $path );

In general, PHP frameworks tend to specify some full paths during their bootstrap, like absolute path to the document root, the application folder, the log folder, etc. and then use those paths whenever specifying a path to a file. This is handy and tends to be very stable because the bootstrap file tends to stay in the same filepath, whereas with the problem you are experiencing, your path resolution breaks when you move the script from folder to folder. I say all this by way of saying you might consider creating a "document root" variable in a header file, for example, include that header file in each of your scripts, and then use that variable when you need to create filepaths.

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