Re: [PHP] Test Links...

[R'twick Niceorgaw]

Doug Coning said the following on 9/26/2003 12:15 PM>>

Greetings All,

I am creating a 'links' page and was wondering if there was a way in PHP
to test the response of an outside link?  I'm sure everyone here has
clicked on a links page link and have a "No Page Found" error because no
one is keeping the links uptodate.  I was wondering if there was a way
when a link was clicked to test the link first to see if it is still
active.  If it isn't active, I would like to remove the link from my
database.
Is there a command that tests the results of link?

Thanks,

Doug Coning
Hi doug,

try something like the function given here
http://shiflett.org/dev/php_post.phps and check the returned headers .. 
there will be a field which will contain the status code (200 for 
successful / 404 for page not found etc).

HTH
R'twick
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