note 118938 deleted from function.parse-url by cmb

Note Submitter: ivijan dot stefan at gmail dot com ---- If you need check if URL exists or not, here is one my good function for that. <?php // Return false or URL function url_exists($url='') { if(empty($url)) return false; $curl = curl_init($url); //don't fetch the actual page, you only want to check the connection is ok curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_NOBODY, true); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT ,5); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT , 2); //do request $result = curl_exec($curl); //if request did not fail if ($result !== false) { //if request was ok, check response code $statusCode = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE); if ((int)$statusCode === 200) return $url; return false; } curl_close($curl); return false; } if(url_exists("http://www.google.com")!==false) { // URL Exists } ?> This can help if you decide to do some dynamic URL parser or something where need validations.