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file_exists doesn't find image with Cyrillic name

I have this image "Трислоен-паркет.png" and this to check if it exists:

$imgs='../images/pc/'.clear_string($categoryrow[1],$tr).'.png';        
if(file_exists($imgs)){ echo 'yes';
}else echo 'no';

It always returns NO. The strange thing is that if I call the image without check if it is exists - it shows the image but I need to DO check and show that image if exists, otherwise I will show default image..but file_exists does wrong ..

clear_string function only removes white spaces and commas and some other type letters.. how to avoid it?

Solution

  • You can use iconv to set the language format you pass to the functions such as file_exists.

    Your code might look something like this:

    file_exists(iconv('iso-8859-5', 'utf-8', $imgs));