apache_lookup_uri Perform a partial request for the specified URI and return all info about it objectapache_lookup_uri stringfilename This performs a partial request for a URI. It goes just far enough to obtain all the important information about the given resource and returns this information in a class. The properties of the returned class are: status the_request status_line method content_type handler uri filename path_info args boundary no_cache no_local_copy allowed send_bodyct bytes_sent byterange clength unparsed_uri mtime request_time filename)) { echo 'file exists!'; } ?> ]]> The above example will output something similar with: 200 [the_request] => GET /dir/file.php HTTP/1.1 [method] => GET [mtime] => 0 [clength] => 0 [chunked] => 0 [content_type] => application/x-httpd-php [no_cache] => 0 [no_local_copy] => 1 [unparsed_uri] => /dir/index.php?var=value [uri] => /dir/index.php [filename] => /home/htdocs/dir/index.php [args] => var=value [allowed] => 0 [sent_bodyct] => 0 [bytes_sent] => 0 [request_time] => 1074282764 ) file exists! ]]> apache_lookup_uri only works when PHP is installed as an Apache module.