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Revision: 61774
at January 14, 2013 22:07 by goo
Initial Code 
<?php

       if (isDomainAvailible('http://www.css-tricks.com'))
       {
               echo "Up and running!";
       }
       else
       {
               echo "Woops, nothing found there.";
       }

       //returns true, if domain is availible, false if not
       function isDomainAvailible($domain)
       {
               //check, if a valid url is provided
               if(!filter_var($domain, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL))
               {
                       return false;
               }

               //initialize curl
               $curlInit = curl_init($domain);
               curl_setopt($curlInit,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,10);
               curl_setopt($curlInit,CURLOPT_HEADER,true);
               curl_setopt($curlInit,CURLOPT_NOBODY,true);
               curl_setopt($curlInit,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);

               //get answer
               $response = curl_exec($curlInit);

               curl_close($curlInit);

               if ($response) return true;

               return false;
       }
?>
Initial URL 
http://css-tricks.com/snippets/php/check-if-website-is-available/
Initial Description 
Want to know if a specific website is available? cURL is here to help. This script can be used with a cron job to monitor your websites.
Initial Title 
[PHP] Is Domain Avalaible
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