file_exists() is too slow in PHP. Can anyone suggest a faster alternative?

Question

When displaying images on our website, we check if the file exists with a call to file_exists(). We fall back to a dummy image if the file was missing.

Howe

Answer 1

If you want to check existence of an image file, a much faster way is to use getimagesize !

Faster locally and remotely!

if(!@GetImageSize($image_path_or_url)) // False means no imagefile
 {
 // Do something
 }