Correct PHP way to check if external image exists?

Question

I know that there are at least 10 the same questions with answers but none of them seems to work for me flawlessly. I\'m trying to check if internal or external image exists (is

Answer 1

If you're using PHP >=5.0.0 you can pass an additional parameter into fopen to specify context options for HTTP, among them whether to ignore failure status codes.

$contextOptions = array( 'http' => array('ignore_errors' => true));

$context = stream_context_create($contextOptions);

$handle = fopen($url, 'r', false, $context);