Comments on: PHP- Check If File Exists On Different Domain

By: Maruf

Maruf — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:53:24 +0000

Hey Paul,

Many thanks, that’s a great solution! I will update this post later

Learn something new every day…

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:48:36 +0000

You only need to examine the headers – don’t need the whole file such as in file_get_contents…

$arrHeader = get_headers($url, 1);
if ( strpos( $arrHeader[0], ’404′ ) !== false ){
//Got it!
} else {
Not so much!
}

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 16 May 2010 13:39:58 +0000

file_get_contents(“http://example.com/path/to/image.gif”,0,null,0,1) is a much better solution!

By: learner

learner — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:31:25 +0000

nice post. it was helpful.

By: Blake

Blake — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:04:18 +0000

Couldn’t you just put the @fopen directly into the if expression? If it returns a resource it will be TRUE, if not it will be FALSE. Forget the strpos()