Check if Website Exists?
 

Hi guys, this is driving me crazy. I don't care which method I use, I just want it to work. How can I get my script to check if the user submitted article is accessible or not?

I can't figure out how I can get it to work with all of the possible urls
www.website.com
http://www.website.com
https://www.website.com
http://www.website.com/directory/index.php?id=2425
etc.

Any help would be greatly appreciated :)

http://www.php.net/file_get_contents
http://www.php.net/curl

Thank you, I managed to do it with curl. Turns out I had php errors turned off and php safe mode turned on.

I have another question now, is there any possible way to get the root domain out of a link? so if someone submits
http://www.subdomain.domain.com/aasdg/bob/horse.html

my script can somehow get www.domain.com

http://www.php.net/parse_url should do the trick. It's a useful function but I keep forgetting its name...

I made a script like this for practice, I don't remember exactly what I had, but you would have to use a socket to ping the site, and on the site search it for a specific string. I did it with 2 functions that were small, so this shouldn't be much of a problem to pull off.