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Created March 27, 2014 13:54
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PHP Curl to check if url is alive
<?php
function check_alive($url, $timeout = 10, $successOn = array(200, 301)) {
$ch = curl_init($url);
// Set request options
curl_setopt_array($ch, array(
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => false,
CURLOPT_NOBODY => true,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => $timeout,
CURLOPT_USERAGENT => "page-check/1.0"
));
// Execute request
curl_exec($ch);
// Check if an error occurred
if(curl_errno($ch)) {
curl_close($ch);
return false;
}
// Get HTTP response code
$code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
curl_close($ch);
// Page is alive if 200 OK is received
//return $code;
return in_array( $code, $successOn );
}
$checks = array(
'http://www.google.co.uk',
'http://www.facebook.com',
'http://www.bbc.co.uk',
'http://photogabble.co.uk',
'http://youtube.com'
);
foreach($checks as $check)
{
echo $check . ' is ' . ( (check_alive($check) ) ? 'Alive' : 'Dead' ) . "\n";
}
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for some reason it don't pick up 404 as an error

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