Comments on: Use fopen() to Check File Availability?

By: Jhon

Jhon — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 15:20:27 +0000

Tanks for this code! +1

Goran Jurić — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:06:26 +0000

You can use fopen on remote files only if you have allow_url_fopen set to “1” in your php.ini.

Mircea Soaica — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:29:30 +0000

using fopen with urls is not a good practice because of code injection.

you could use curl for this and only read the response headers (CURLOPT_HEADER=true and CURLOPT_NOBODY=true).

fopen returns false on error, not only when the file doesn’t exist