[JohnBee]

Well.... are you saying will this work in my vbulletin templates?
because I added it in and it litterally printed the code on my screen, I don't know how come it does that.

so I was assuming this is perl and not php, I'm trying to get the equivalent
of this code in php.

Okay I tried some more and discovered that...

since I use a variable used through my style php include start I would have to somehow
get that code to work with the $myfile variable or something can someone help me
figure this out?

I basically want to display a custom message if the php include file is not present
in a vBulletin page.


Heres my attempt in my phpinclude start:

if ( file_exists("http://www.mysite.com/index.txt") )
{
	ob_start();
	require("http://www.mysite.com/index.txt");
	$info = ob_get_contents();
	ob_end_clean();

} else {
	ob_start();
	require("/home/www/public/web/errors/nofile.txt");
	$info = ob_get_contents();
	ob_end_clean();
}

it doesnt work it always returns false

Got it!

$includefile="http://www.mysite.com/index.txt";
$handle = fopen($includefile, "r", 1);
if ($handle) {
    fclose($handle);
	ob_start();
	require("http://www.mysite.com/index.txt");
	$info = ob_get_contents();
	ob_end_clean();
} else {

	ob_start();
	require("/home/www/public/web/errors/nofile.txt");
	$info = ob_get_contents();
	ob_end_clean();
}

tried and tested
Works nicely