On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah wrote:
> David de Kloet <dskloet@cs.vu.nl> wrote in message news:<Pine.GSO.4.53.0306252110030.13163@keg.cs.vu. nl>...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to fopen an image over http, but only if it exists. Is there a way
> > to find out whether it exists? Or is there a way to check wether the fopen
> > call failed without getting the error message of fopen in my web page?
>
> function IsValidURL($url)
> {
> $fp = @fopen($url, "r");
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Thanks, I see it is the @ doing the trick. Does the @ mean exactly "don't
print errors in my webpage" or is it different?

David