file_exists() not working

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I'm using Yii 1.1.15 and am trying to use a simple file_exists() php function. But i cant get it to work.

when i just return the image url, the image shows. but when i use file_exists() it returns $img2

function in my model

 public function brandPageImage($make = false) { $urlstr = Yii::app()->request->baseUrl.'/images/brand-pages/make/'; $img = $urlstr.trim(strtolower($make)).'-976x365.jpg'; $img2 = $urlstr.'default-976x365.jpg'; clearstatcache(); if (file_exists($img)) return $img; return $img2; }

if i return $img directly it works!

 public function brandPageImage($make = false) { $urlstr = Yii::app()->request->baseUrl.'/images/brand-pages/make/'; return $img = $urlstr.trim(strtolower($make)).'-976x365.jpg'; }

this is the url it generates

/dev/frontend/www/images/brand-pages/make/lol-976x365.jpg

can someone help me, don't see what i'm doing wrong here. I'm running XAMMP on OSX Thanks

/dev? Sure? This is the *nix devices subsystem. It would be very weird to have JPEGs stored there. — Bart Friederichs
– Bart Friederichs, Commented Dec 17, 2014 at 14:16
@YeahBoy yes it does, like i said, when i return $img on line 3, the image shows. — user2636556
– user2636556, Commented Dec 17, 2014 at 14:17
Hmmm... What @BartFriederichs means is that this would be a very bad choice for a folder to store the image... Like storing your regular documents in `C:\Windows\System32` would be a bad choice on Windows machines — RichardBernards
– RichardBernards, Commented Dec 17, 2014 at 14:18

A l w a y s S u n n y · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-17 14:45:02Z

you should use getPathOfAlias instead of baseUrl,Because Yii::app()->request->baseUrl returns base URL, not document root path.

 if (file_exists(YiiBase::getPathOfAlias('webroot').'images/brand-pages/make/‌ lol-976x365.jpg')) { // do what you want to do }

Jenno Richi Benat · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-17 14:29:41Z

Try with since it need the path and not the url where the image resides

 public function brandPageImage($make = false) { $urlstr = dirname(Yii::app()->request->scriptFile).'/images/brand-pages/make/'; $img = $urlstr.trim(strtolower($make)).'-976x365.jpg'; $img2 = $urlstr.'default-976x365.jpg'; clearstatcache(); if (file_exists($img)) return $img; return $img2; }

still don't work url your code generates is /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/dev/frontend/www/images/brand-pages/make/lol-976x365.jpg
once again can you check if the image is available pls, atleast with the url directly

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