Catching file not found warnings 2

[gregmosu]

Hello all,

I keep getting an warning message printed to the screen when a file cant be opened..

$fp = file("/path/myfile.txt"

Is there a dienice or croak function in php that will catch the error message so the user doesnt have to see it?

Thanks,
Greg

 

[DRJ478]

You can use the @ sign:

$fp = @file("/path/myfile.txt");

However, you will still end up with a 'bad' filepointer that will fail on the next file command.
It is preferable to handle the possible 'not found' error explicitly rather than choking the warnings that PHP produces.

My recommendation:
Use is_file() and is_dir() to check for existence rather than having the file commands fail.

http://ca2.php.net/manual/en/function.is-file.php

 

[gregmosu]

so use is_file() to check for the existence of it before trying to open it.

Thanks!