[Brandon W]

Well I am looking at making a link checker script for my forums. I see there are many around but I don't know how to make the one. So has anyone please got a script I can look at to test it? Please I need this ASAP.

[Brandon W]

Anyone?

[Chozo4]

PHP :: Scripts and Programs :: Link Checking
http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_and_...king/index.html

[mecablaze]

I normally use cURL of fopen to test if a link (url) is valid. Try this script.

function validURL($url) {
	$ch = curl_init();
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE, 8192);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 5);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5);
	$output = curl_exec($ch);
	$info = curl_getinfo($ch);
	curl_close($ch);

	@$components = parse_url($url);
	
	if ( $info["http_code"] == 200 ) {
		return true;
	} else {
		if ( $components["scheme"] == "ftp" && $info["http_code"] >= 200 && $info["http_code"] < 300 ) {
			return true;
		}
		return false;
	}
}

Works with http(s) and ftp protocols. Have fun.