PHP File Exists Always False

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Published on 2009-11-25T19:59:54Z Indexed on 2010/04/02 8:03 UTC
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I have a case where file_exists() is always returning false. My latest attempt was to just test to see if it would return true for $_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"] and then return the value of the path if it couldn't find the file which it does.

The path while not necessarily relevant to solving the problem is: /Users/joe/Workspace/720/app/webroot/index.php

I have obviously verified that the file is there, and am not even sure how it couldn't be there since php is serving it up.

I should mention this is on an install of OS X Snow Leopard running PHP 5.3.0.

Any ideas would be fantastic.

CODE SAMPLE:

if (!file_exists($_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"]))
    $errors[] = 'Cant find:'. $_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"];

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