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at January 6, 2010 05:25 by ginoplusio
Initial Code 
function url_exists($url) {
	$ch = @curl_init($url);
	@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, TRUE);
	@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, TRUE);
	@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, FALSE);
	@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
	$status = array();
	preg_match('/HTTP\/.* ([0-9]+) .*/', @curl_exec($ch) , $status);
	return ($status[1] == 200);
}
Initial URL 
http://www.barattalo.it/2010/01/06/test-if-a-remote-url-exists-with-php-and-curl/
Initial Description 
If you have to test if a remote url is correct you can use CURL and get the headers returned by the http request. If you receive a 200 code, than it’s ok, else the url is not correct:
Initial Title 
Url exists function to check remote url
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