[TIP] Checking to see if an mp3 station is online

If you run a couple MP3 servers, you might want to automatically let people know what servers are online and offline. It's remarkably very easy. I initally found this posted by jamie.watt@murchison.com.au on the www.php.net/manual/function.fopen.php page and I thought I would give try and see if it would work, and it does! You can see it at http://www.vrillusions.com/test.php3?url=http://ip:port/ and the source for it is below: REMEBER TO REMOVE THE . IN FRONT OF THE HTML TAGS <.html><.body> <? if ($url) { $fp = @fopen($url,"r"); if ($fp) { echo "$url is online"; } else { echo "$url is offline"; } } else { echo "Please enter a url, here's an example:<br><br>\n"; echo "...$PHP_SELF?url=http://www.vrillusions.com/"; } ?> &nbsp; <./body><./html> as you can see, its very easy to turn it into a function and run it for several servers. Hope this helps anyone that's had that idea in their heads. -- Todd Eddy vrillusions@mail.com http://www.vrillusions.com/ I acceept PGP secured mail, You can get my public key at: http://www.vrillusions.com/contact/