check if a file exists on an FTP server

[laredotornado]

Hello,

Using PHP 4, how do you check if a file exists on an FTP server given
its connection information and a directory to check?

Thanks, - Dave

[Luka M.]

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Hello,

Using PHP 4, how do you check if a file exists on an FTP server given
its connection information and a directory to check?

Thanks, - Dave

I think there is none, but maby you could rename it with ftp_rename() to the
same name :-)
I'm doing something with FTP 2.

[Noodle]

2 options...

1. Use 'ftp_nlist' to retrieve the list of files, and check to see if
your file is there.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ftp-nlist.php

or

2. Use 'ftp_size' to check the file size of a given file (it will
return -1 if the file doesn't exist).

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ftp-size.php

la***********@zipmail.com wrote:

Hello,

Using PHP 4, how do you check if a file exists on an FTP server given
its connection information and a directory to check?

Thanks, - Dave

[Steve]

On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 08:05:45 -0700, la***********@zipmail.com wrote:

Hello,

Using PHP 4, how do you check if a file exists on an FTP server given
its connection information and a directory to check?

Thanks, - Dave

I'd just use fopen, as in
fopen("ftp://user:pa******@example.com/somefile.txt", "r")

Steve