User Contributed Notes: is_dir
php@wastelan.com
it appears like is_dir and is_file don't work
me@seanbright.com
Inconsistancy between is_dir and is_readable. is_readable does not
php3-user@mindcontrol.org.NoSpam
I think the first user's comments are based on being confused about the working directory for PHP3 scripts. The cwd is NOT necessarily the same as the location of the script. Use chdir() to set the CWD if you don't pass a full path to this functions (and others taking file names).
whit@asan.com
Somewhere between 3.0.5 and 3.0.12 there was apparently a change in this function. 3.0.5 worked fine with "if (!is_dir($file))" constructions, where this followed an opendir(whatever) and $file=readdir() - without any further attention to path (must have been maintaining path info internally?). 3.0.12 apparently fails even with specifying the full path. This is on two Solaris systems, otherwise identical. is_file appears similarly dysfunctional.
whit@asan.com
Correction, it does work now if you fully specify the path - but it used to not require it. So the documentation should note that a previous convenient functionality has been broken, and older scripts may need adjustment.
fnemec@sti.com.br
I get a problem using is_dir() function.
duden@earthling.net
I had problems with is_dir too.
lucian@hitel.net
seems like is_dir, is_file and is_link work correctly _only_ for filenames that have absolute path. while
richards@herald.net
fnemec: Your example seems to be missing an initial / . If that was cut-and-pasted from your code, that's probably your problem.
yorx@enter.vg
It appears that is_dir does not work properly on win32, and returns false if the directory name has a trailing \. ex: is_dir('c:\\php') returns true while is_dir('c:\\php\\') returns false.
Manual: is_dir
