Returns TRUE if the file or directory specified by filename exists; FALSE otherwise.
On windows, use //computername/share/filename or \\computername\share\filename to check files on network shares.
Note: The results of this function are cached. See clearstatcache() for more details.
Note: This function will not work on remote files as the file to be examined must be accessible via the servers filesystem.
See also is_readable(), is_writable(), is_file() and file().