How do you get the HTTP status code for a remote domain in php?

Question

I would like to create a batch script, to go through 20,000 links in a DB, and weed out all the 404s and such. How would I get the HTTP status code for a remote url?

Answer 1

You can use PEAR's HTTP::head function.
http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.http.http.head.php