How to check if a webpage exists. jQuery and/or PHP

Question

I want to be able to validate a form to check if a website/webpage exists. If it returns a 404 error then that definitely shouldn\'t validate. If there is a redirect...I\'m

Answer 1

I've just written a simpler version using PHP:

function url_check($url) {

$x = @fopen($url,"r");

if ($x) {

         $reply = 1;

         fclose($x);

} else {

            $reply = 0;

}

return $reply;

}

Obviously $url is the test URL, returns true (1) or false (0) depending on URL existence.