What is the easiest way to use the HEAD command of HTTP in PHP?

Question

I would like to send the HEAD command of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol to a server in PHP to retrieve the header, but not the content or a URL. How do I do this in an effi

Answer 1

Even easier than curl - just use the PHPget_headers()function which returns an array of all header info for any URL you specify. And another real easy way to check for remote file existence is to usefopen()and try to open the URL in read mode (you'll need to enable allow_url_fopen for this).

Just check out the PHP manual for these functions, it's all in there.