note 117256 modified in function.get-headers by cmb

Testing the validity of a URL that is preceded by one or more server redirects is tricky. There will be more than one status code returned and all but the first will be redirect codes. This function will return an integer containing the three digit status code of the last code returned, which is what you want. function getStatus($url) { $headers = @get_headers($url, true); $value = NULL; if ($headers === false) { return $headers; } foreach ($headers as $k => $v) { if (!is_int($k)) { continue; } $value = $v; } return (int) substr($value, strpos($value, ' ', 8) + 1, 3); } If getHeaders() fails, PHP will throw an error. Test the return value for === false. --was-- Testing the validity of a URL that is preceded by one or more server redirects is tricky. There will be more than one status code returned and all but the first will be redirect codes. This function will return an integer containing the three digit status code of the last code returned, which is what you want. function getStatus($url) { $headers = @get_headers($url, true); foreach($headers as $k => $v) { if (! is_int($k)) continue; $value = $v; } return (int) substr($value, strpos($value,' ', 8) +1, 3); } http://php.net/manual/en/function.get-headers.php