As the title says I'm searching for the best way to check if a file exists before execute a file_put_contents function. It's better to add a number after the filename? or It's better to generate the filename with a date/time after the name? In my case, what would you do?
Here's my working code,
if(isset($_POST['genfile'])){
$scriptfile = $_POST['genfile'];
$script = preg_split('/(\r?\n)+/', $_POST['genfile']);
$copy=$script;
file_put_contents('generated_scripts/script.sh', $scriptfile);
foreach ($script as $script_launcher){
echo $script_launcher;
if (next($copy)) {
echo "\r\n";
}
}
}
To check if file exists you can use built up function file_exists in php.
Example :
if (file_exists($file)) {
//file exists
}
Alternatively you can use get_headers function.
Example:
$headers = @get_headers($filename);
$exists = ($headers[0] == 'HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found'); //file does not exist