On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 14:24, Jose Jeria wrote: > I am new to PHP and I have a simple question about fopen > > For example: > $tmp = fopen("testfile.txt", "r"); > > If the file is not found i get an error. ("No such file or directory") > So there is no point in checking for this like this: > > if($tmp) // statements > > Am I doing something wrong here?
No. But if you want to suppress that error message, use a @ character in front of the fopen: if ($tmp = @fopen("testfile.txt", "r")) { } Please post questions like this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the future. - Stig -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php