Determine in php script if connected to internet?

Question

How can I check if I\'m connected to the internet from my PHP script which is running on my dev machine?

I run the script to download a set of files (which may or ma

Answer 1

You could ping to a popular site or to the site you're wgetting from (like www.google.nl) then parse the result to see if you can connect to it.

&1", $output, $retval);
if ($retval != 0) { 
echo "no!"; 
} 
else 
{ 
echo "yes!"; }
?>