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A function to see if a file exists with curl.

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This function will use curl to see if a file exists at the location it's provided. It accepts $_path as a parameter.

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  1. function file_alive($_path) {
  2.   $handle   = curl_init($_path);
  3.   if (false === $handle) {return false;}
  4.   curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
  5.   curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, true);
  6.   curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, Array("User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.15) Gecko/20080623 Firefox/2.0.0.15") ); // request as if Firefox because some sites request a valid header from you
  7.   curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_NOBODY, true);
  8.   curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, false);
  9.   $alive = curl_exec($handle);
  10.   curl_close($handle);   
  11.   return $alive;
  12. }

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