[snip] File_exists doesn't seem to work with URLs that point to another domain. What to use? $x = fopen(http://www.stammis.com/getstart.php); if file_exists($x) .... .... ???? [/snip] What version of PHP are you using. With anything less than PHP5 you cannot use file_exists on anything other than the file system PHP is local to. All versions of PHP. Explicitly using file:// since PHP 4.3.0 /path/to/file.ext relative/path/to/file.ext fileInCwd.ext C:/path/to/winfile.ext C:\path\to\winfile.ext \\smbserver\share\path\to\winfile.ext file:///path/to/file.ext file:// is the default wrapper used with PHP and represents the local filesystem. When a relative path is specified (a path which does not begin with /, \, \\, or a windows drive letter) the path provided will be applied against the current working directory. In many cases this is the directory in which the script resides unless it has been changed. Using the CLI sapi, this defaults to the directory from which the script was called. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php