How to PHP server-side check if a url of a web site is valid?

Question

I\'ve searched our SO questions but found solutions are based on calling ping command executed from using system PHP function.

My web host

Answer 1

try this:

//checking if the site exists by fopen, instead of file_get_contents to speed it up

$url = "URL"; //your url goes in this place instead of nabtron.com

if (@fopen($url,"r")) {
echo "".$url." is accessible
";
}