link — Create a hard link
is_link — Tells whether the filename is a symbolic link
Look up the difference between hard and soft/symbolic links.
-Shawn
On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 3:27 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
