I am generating dynamic URLs of images for book ISBNs. I need a reliable way with PHP to check whether the images actually exist at the remote url. I tried various approaches with different PHP libraries, curl, etc., but none of them works well, some of them are downright slow. Given the fact that I need to generate (and check!) about 60 URLS for each book in my database, this is a huge waiting time. Any clues?
function checkRemoteFile($url)
{
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
// don't download content
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
if($result !== FALSE)
{
return true;
}
else
{
return false;
}
}
--> that is the fastest way if your host supports curl
You can use getimagesize()
Credit: http://junal.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/checking-if-an-image-url-exist/