Test website exists in PHP

PoorDoggie · 03-20-2006, 11:25 AM

I have tried the file_exists() function, but it doesn't seem to work with external websites. Is there anyway I can see if an external website (www.thiswebsite.com/scrpt.php?a=asd) exists?

Thanks
Tom

**labrocca** · 03-20-2006, 11:47 AM

curl

PoorDoggie · 03-20-2006, 12:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by labrocca

curl

hmm... thanks, but how would I use that?

Thanks
Tom

Noobie · 03-20-2006, 12:44 PM

http://ca.php.net/curl

PHP Code:

  $ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://my.domain.com/my_url.php" ); 

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,10); //added

$result= curl_exec($ch);

if (empty($result))

{

    echo "doesn't exist";

}

else

{

    echo "exists";

}

PoorDoggie · 03-20-2006, 12:55 PM

thanks everyone!

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