checking for broken URLs with PHP?

[AK]

Hi,

Can anyone tell me how to connect to a URL using PHP for the purpose
of obtaining the HTTP response code? Specifically, I want to be able
to ascertain whether a link is down (404) or alive.

A bare-bones example would be appreciated.

Thanks!

[Captain Paralytic]

On 13 Nov, 11:00, AK <[e-mail]:

Hi,

Can anyone tell me how to connect to a URL using PHP for the purpose
of obtaining the HTTP response code? Specifically, I want to be able
to ascertain whether a link is down (404) or alive.

A bare-bones example would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Try typing
php http request
into Google

[igrosny]

On Nov 13, 8:00 am, AK <[e-mail]:

Hi,

Can anyone tell me how to connect to a URL using PHP for the purpose
of obtaining the HTTP response code? Specifically, I want to be able
to ascertain whether a link is down (404) or alive.

A bare-bones example would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Perhaps this could help

http://ar.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php#58099

[Csaba Gabor]

On Nov 13, 12:00 pm, AK <[e-mail]:
....

Can anyone tell me how to connect to a URL using PHP for the purpose
of obtaining the HTTP response code? Specifically, I want to be able
to ascertain whether a link is down (404) or alive.

A bare-bones example would be appreciated.

<?php
file_get_contents("http://google.com");
var_dump($http_response_header);
?>
Csaba Gabor from Vienna

[AK]

On Nov 14, 12:09 am, Csaba Gabor <[e-mail]:

On Nov 13, 12:00 pm, AK <[e-mail]:
...

Can anyone tell me how to connect to a URL using PHP for the purpose
of obtaining the HTTP response code? Specifically, I want to be able
to ascertain whether a link is down (404) or alive.

A bare-bones example would be appreciated.

<?php
file_get_contents("http://google.com");
var_dump($http_response_header);
?>

Csaba Gabor from Vienna

Thanks, that's the sort of "quick solution" I was looking for
(although I managed to find it myself after a bit of digging:
$arr = get_headers("http://www.google.com");
is even more concise)

Thanks to the previous responses as well, including the one that
suggested using a quaint little thing that seems to have the amazing
ability to search through web pages! (Google, I think it's called... )

Cheers

[Lars Eighner]

In our last episode,
<11*********************@k79g2000hse.googlegroups. com>,
the lovely and talented AK
broadcast on comp.lang.php:

Hi,

Can anyone tell me how to connect to a URL using PHP for the purpose
of obtaining the HTTP response code? Specifically, I want to be able
to ascertain whether a link is down (404) or alive.

A bare-bones example would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Is there some reason searching the manual index on 'http' did not turn up
http_head for you?

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