Checking existence of file in same folder

Question

I'm sure I'm missing something obvious here. I want to include a php file but I need to check if it exists first and every time I run it, I get a failure message. I can see the file is there from my FTP application.

        <?
            $man_file="/site/67/blog/612.php";
            if (file_exists($man_file)){
                include($man_file);
            }
            else
            {
                echo $man_file;
            }
            clearstatcache();
        ?>

Am I missing something?

Answer 1

That did it Fred. I've never had to do that before. Post it as an answer and I'll upvote it and accept it. – Richard Young

Posting my comment as "the" answer:

$man_file="/site/67/blog/612.php";

Use a full server path (an example):

$man_file="/var/usr/public/site/67/blog/612.php"; 

or a relative one.

Answer 2

You need to put the path to the file as well. So try something like

$man_file=$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/612.php";

If the directory you are searching is the root .