How can I check if a URL exists via PHP?

Question

How do I check if a URL exists (not 404) in PHP?

Answer 1

get_headers() returns an array with the headers sent by the server in response to a HTTP request.

$image_path = 'https://your-domain.com/assets/img/image.jpg';

$file_headers = @get_headers($image_path);
//Prints the response out in an array
//print_r($file_headers); 

if($file_headers[0] == 'HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found'){
   echo 'Failed because path does not exist.</br>';
}else{
   echo 'It works. Your good to go!</br>';
}

Answer 2

function URLIsValid($URL)
{
    $exists = true;
    $file_headers = @get_headers($URL);
    $InvalidHeaders = array('404', '403', '500');
    foreach($InvalidHeaders as $HeaderVal)
    {
            if(strstr($file_headers[0], $HeaderVal))
            {
                    $exists = false;
                    break;
            }
    }
    return $exists;
}

Answer 3

cURL can return HTTP code I don’t think all that extra code is necessary?

function urlExists($url=NULL)
    {
        if($url == NULL) return false;
        $ch = curl_init($url);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 5);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
        $data = curl_exec($ch);
        $httpcode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
        curl_close($ch); 
        if($httpcode>=200 && $httpcode<300){
            return true;
        } else {
            return false;
        }
    }

Answer 4

pretty fast:

function http_response($url){
    $resURL = curl_init(); 
    curl_setopt($resURL, CURLOPT_URL, $url); 
    curl_setopt($resURL, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, 1); 
    curl_setopt($resURL, CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION, 'curlHeaderCallback'); 
    curl_setopt($resURL, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 1); 
    curl_exec ($resURL); 
    $intReturnCode = curl_getinfo($resURL, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE); 
    curl_close ($resURL); 
    if ($intReturnCode != 200 && $intReturnCode != 302 && $intReturnCode != 304) { return 0; } else return 1;
}

echo 'google:';
echo http_response('http://www.google.com');
echo '/ ogogle:';
echo http_response('http://www.ogogle.com');

Answer 5

function urlIsOk($url)
{
    $headers = @get_headers($url);
    $httpStatus = intval(substr($headers[0], 9, 3));
    if ($httpStatus<400)
    {
        return true;
    }
    return false;
}

Answer 6

you cannot use curl in certain servers u can use this code

<?php
$url = 'http://www.example.com';
$array = get_headers($url);
$string = $array[0];
if(strpos($string,"200"))
  {
    echo 'url exists';
  }
  else
  {
    echo 'url does not exist';
  }
?>