is_file under windows

How do you normally check filetypes? I ended up resorting to
!is_dir($file) as all other calls seem to fail so I had to assume if not
a directory its a file, rather than specifically checking if its a file.

I'm recursing a folder:

<?php
$cat_seq = 1;
$path = "e:\\videos\\$cat_seq";
$dh = opendir($path);
while ($file = readdir($dh)) {
echo filetype($file)."<br />";
if ( !is_dir($file) ) {
echo $file;
}
}
?>

Under windows, I can try is_file(), this always returns "" (nothing),
and if I try filetype($file) (as above on the echo) I can get 'dir' for
directories but get the following for files:

Warning: filetype() [function.filetype]: Lstat failed for <filename>

Tyno Gendo wrote:I'm running PHP 5.2 on WinXP with Apache 2 if that helps.

Tyno Gendo wrote:... I just uploaded to a linux server to test, same result. Files exist
because i'm just recursing a directory now and printing out the names of
things that it finds along with an is_file($file) as well, always
returns <blank:-/

.. I just uploaded to a linux server to test, same result. Files exist
What do you pass to the is_file() function? The full path or just the
"basename"?

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Willem Bogaerts wrote:In this instance I have passed fullname. I could try a chdir and then
is_file("./$file"); ?

Willem Bogaerts wrote:Thanks Willem,

I changed the test code as follows and used chdir to move into the base
directory first, then I just opened "." as the directory and checked the
file, it works. Code as follows checking for video files in a category
folder:

<?php
$cat_seq = 1;
$path = "e:\\videos\\$cat_seq";
chdir($path);
$dh = opendir(".") or die('cannot open directory');
while ($file = readdir($dh)) {
if ( is_file($file) ) {
echo $file;
}
}
?>