How can I check if a file exists on a remote server using PHP?

Question

How can I check if a specific file exists on a remote server using PHP via FTP connections?

Answer 1

You can use ftp_nlist to list all the files on the remote server. Then you should search into the result array to check if the file what you was looking for exists.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ftp-nlist.php