How can one check to see if a remote file exists using PHP?

Question

The best I could find, an if fclose fopen type thing, makes the page load really slowly.

Basically what I\'m trying to do is

Answer 1

You can use :

$url=getimagesize(“http://www.flickr.com/photos/27505599@N07/2564389539/”);

if(!is_array($url))
{
   $default_image =”…/directoryFolder/junal.jpg”;
}