Re: testing the validity of a link

You could do an fopen on the URL and see if the results contain the string "404 not found" or something. Read these pages: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php http://www.php.net/manual/en/wrappers.php http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.stream-get-meta-data.php Looks like with 4.3+ you can use the internal functions of PHP to do what you are asking. You could alternatively install curl and get the resulting HTTP code. http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.curl.php Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Beckman Internet Guy beckman@purplecow.com http://www.purplecow.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------