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what is the best way to check if a Url exists in PHP ?`
I'm looking for a function that returns TRUE or FALSE in php, either the URL is valid or not.
isValidURL($url); i think that simple... That would take into count all kind of URL possible.
By valid i want It to referes to an existing page of the web or other kind of files. It just should exist
<?php
$url = "http://stack*overflow.org";
if(filter_var($url, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL) === FALSE)
{
echo "Not valid";
}else{
echo "VALID";
}
?>
this does not check tlds though
You can check whether URL is valid or not using parse_url
function which would return false
if URL is not valid and an array
otherwise.
function isValidURL($url) { return (bool)parse_url($url); }
pretty easy way, huh? :)