I did manage to figure out that link creates a hard link. And that I should have used symlink() instead. But how would a hard link be detected? JK > On Dec 17, 2018, at 1:27 PM, Jeffry Killen <jekillen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello: > > I am trying to get a feel for the difference > between is_link and is_file. > > So I ran this code: the result is in comment block at the bottom > > <?php > if(link('index.php', 'indexLink') === false) > { > print "link failed"; > } > else > { > $_linkRes = 'false'; > $_fileRes = 'false'; > if(is_link('indexLink')) > { > $_linkRes = 'true'; > } > else if(is_file('indexLink')) > { > $_fileRes = 'true'; > } > print 'indexLink: link; '.$_linkRes."<br>"; > print 'indexLink: file; '.$_fileRes; > } > /* > output: > indexLink: link; false > indexLink: file; true > */ > ?> > > Why is it returning false for link and true for file? > > This is an apache/php v 5.3x installation on Mac Yosemite. > > Forgive my ignorance, but I have not worked with links up > to this point. If I load http://localhost/indexLink I get a ton > of raw code and some html rendered. > > Thank you for time and attention > JK