note 49601 deleted from function.preg-match-all by colder

Note Submitter: mpbweb at mbourque dot com ---- Here is a handy function I wrote that will check for broken links on the supplied url. function dead_links($url) { // mixed link_checker( $url ) // Returns: // FALSE if no broken links are found. // ARRAY containing broken links if any are found. ob_start(); if( !readfile($url) ) return FALSE; $body = ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean(); $pathparts = pathinfo($url); $urlpattern = "/<a[^>]+href=\"([^\"]+)/i"; preg_match_all($urlpattern,$body,$matches); foreach( $matches[1] as $link) { if( strpos($link,"http://") === FALSE ) { // Deal with relative paths $link = $pathparts['dirname'] . "/" . $link; } $fp = @fopen("$link", "r"); fclose($fp); if (!$fp) { $linkArray[] = $link; } } return (is_array($linkArray) ) ? $linkArray : FALSE; } Regards, Michael Bourque