function isValidUrl($url){
// first do some quick sanity checks:
if(!$url || !is_string($url)){
return false;
}
// quick check url is roughly a valid http request: ( http://blah/... )
if( ! preg_match('/^http(s)?:\/\/[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(:[0-9]+)?(\/.*)?$/i', $url) ){
return false;
}
// the next bit could be slow:
if(getHttpResponseCode_using_curl($url) != 200){
// if(getHttpResponseCode_using_getheaders($url) != 200){ // use this one if you cant use curl
return false;
}
// all good!
return true;
}
function getHttpResponseCode_using_curl($url, $followredirects = true){
// returns int responsecode, or false (if url does not exist or connection timeout occurs)
// NOTE: could potentially take up to 0-30 seconds , blocking further code execution (more or less depending on connection, target site, and local timeout settings))
// if $followredirects == false: return the FIRST known httpcode (ignore redirects)
// if $followredirects == true : return the LAST known httpcode (when redirected)
if(! $url || ! is_string($url)){
return false;
}
$ch = @curl_init($url);
if($ch === false){
return false;
}
@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER ,true); // we want headers
@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY ,true); // dont need body
@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER ,true); // catch output (do NOT print!)
if($followredirects){
@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION ,true);
@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS ,10); // fairly random number, but could prevent unwanted endless redirects with followlocation=true
}else{
@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION ,false);
}
// @curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT ,5); // fairly random number (seconds)... but could prevent waiting forever to get a result
// @curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT ,6); // fairly random number (seconds)... but could prevent waiting forever to get a result
// @curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT ,"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0) AppleWebKit/537.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/21.0.1180.89 Safari/537.1"); // pretend we're a regular browser
@curl_exec($ch);
if(@curl_errno($ch)){ // should be 0
@curl_close($ch);
return false;
}
$code = @curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE); // note: php.net documentation shows this returns a string, but really it returns an int
@curl_close($ch);
return $code;
}
function getHttpResponseCode_using_getheaders($url, $followredirects = true){
// returns string responsecode, or false if no responsecode found in headers (or url does not exist)
// NOTE: could potentially take up to 0-30 seconds , blocking further code execution (more or less depending on connection, target site, and local timeout settings))
// if $followredirects == false: return the FIRST known httpcode (ignore redirects)
// if $followredirects == true : return the LAST known httpcode (when redirected)
if(! $url || ! is_string($url)){
return false;
}
$headers = @get_headers($url);
if($headers && is_array($headers)){
if($followredirects){
// we want the last errorcode, reverse array so we start at the end:
$headers = array_reverse($headers);
}
foreach($headers as $hline){
// search for things like "HTTP/1.1 200 OK" , "HTTP/1.0 200 OK" , "HTTP/1.1 301 PERMANENTLY MOVED" , "HTTP/1.1 400 Not Found" , etc.
// note that the exact syntax/version/output differs, so there is some string magic involved here
if(preg_match('/^HTTP\/\S+\s+([1-9][0-9][0-9])\s+.*/', $hline, $matches) ){// "HTTP/*** ### ***"
$code = $matches[1];
return $code;
}
}
// no HTTP/xxx found in headers:
return false;
}
// no headers :
return false;
}