phppathreadfilefile-exists

php readfile wont read filename with inverted questionmark

I have an example filename: $filename = "./music/Daddy Yankee - ¿Qué Tengo Que Hacer.mp3"

When attempting to run if (file_exists($filePathAudio)) { } returns file not found Have confirmed that all other characters in string work properly except for this inverted question mark. How can I get the inverted mark to work, perhaps by some encoding % value?

The string for $filename is displayed by echo or log as the correct path, including all correctly named characters, but is thrown off by the mark.

Solution

  • Probably is the encoding per se. Try to use this sentence:

    file_exists(mb_convert_encoding($filename, "UTF-8"));

    Another option:

    file_exists(iconv('utf-8', 'cp1252', $filename))