How can I check if a URL exists via PHP?

by

Here:

$file="http://www.example.com/somefile.jpg";
$file_headers = @get_headers($file);
if(!$file_headers || $file_headers[0] == 'HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found') {
    $exists = false;
}
else {
    $exists = true;
}

From here and right below the above post, there’s a curl solution:

function url_exists($url) {
    return curl_init($url) !== false;
}

More Related Contents:

  1. URL Redirect / URL Masking [closed]
  2. URL rewriting with PHP
  3. Get the full URL in PHP
  4. PHP validation/regex for URL
  5. Passing base64 encoded strings in URL
  6. Passing arrays as url parameter
  7. Why is the hash part of the URL not available on the server side?
  8. Get Last Part of URL PHP
  9. How to get URL of current page in PHP [duplicate]
  10. Passing multiple variables to another page in url
  11. Check whether image exists on remote URL
  12. What is the best way to check if a URL exists in PHP?
  13. How to get the value after the hash in “somepage.php#name”?
  14. How to get the previous url using PHP
  15. Need a good regex to convert URLs to links but leave existing links alone
  16. Apache rewrite – get original URL in PHP
  17. What are fragment URLs and why to use them?
  18. Get current domain
  19. What is the “?” symbol in URL used for in php?
  20. PHP URL Encoding / Decoding
  21. PHP – Add link to a URL in a string
  22. How to get &curren to display literally, not as an HTML entity
  23. URL Decoding in PHP
  24. What does the dot-slash do to PHP include calls?
  25. PHP – Convert File system path to URL
  26. PHP: How to resolve a relative url
  27. PHP & Hash / Fragment Portion of URL
  28. getting the full url including the query string after hash
  29. Get the path with query string on the current http request in PHP [duplicate]
  30. Detecting a url using preg_match? without http:// in the string

Leave a Comment