There is no best function as such. Everything depends upon your requirement.
You can also use fopen() to get the contents of the remote file and do some
error handling that if you get any content then display image else a message
etc..
Gaurav Kumar
(Team Lead- open source)
oswebstudio.com
On
On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 12:08 +0530, Gaurav Kumar wrote:
There is no best function as such. Everything depends upon your requirement.
You can also use fopen() to get the contents of the remote file and do some
error handling that if you get any content then display image else a message
etc..
The way I've always seen this approached before is by using the wget
command, which can be asked to just return the headers for a page. In
your case you'd be looking for all 200 codes, which means that all the
sites are up. This is faster than asking to return a full image each
time.
but
On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 11:17 +0200, Andrea Giammarchi wrote:
The way I've always seen this approached before is by using the wget
command, which can be asked to just return the headers for a page. In
your case you'd be looking for all 200 codes, which means that all the
sites are up.
This is what I said, except if you want to grab the content you need to request
HEAD first and eventually GET, and this is slower than just GET parsing headers.
In any case, curl is the answer, imho.
Regards
Requesting only the headers is a lot faster than requesting the headers AND the
--- On Tue, 9/15/09, CRM c...@globalissa.com wrote:
From: CRM c...@globalissa.com
Subject: [PHP] best function to use ~ file_get_contents or ?
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Date: Tuesday, September 15, 2009, 5:36 PM
Hi All,
Not sure of the best approach, need your
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