PHP - Check server code on a URL (See if website is up)

checkURL.php

$url = “http://fotan.us”;
$handle = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($handle,  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);

/* Get the HTML or whatever is linked in $url. */
$response = curl_exec($handle);

/* Check the return code. */
$httpCode = curl_getinfo($handle, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);

/*
	Common return codes
	200 - OK
	301 - Moved Permanently
	302 - Moved Temporarily
	400 - Bad request
	401 - Unauthorized
	403 - Forbidden
	404 - Not Found
	406 - Not Accepted
	408 - Request Time-out
	500 - Server Error
	502 - Bad Gateway
	503 - Out of Resources
	504 - Gateway Time-Out
*/

// Do something with the result
if($httpCode == 200) {
	echo “Everything is OK”;
}
		
curl_close($handle);