Error when using fopen to perform a link-check

[Anon]

I'm using fopen to check if the URL submitted by my users is valid.
$addr="http://whatever.org/foo.jpg";
$fp = fopen($addr,"r");
if (!$fp) { echo "$addr is not a valid URL"; die; }

if the url is not valid i got a message :
"Warning: fopen("http://toto.jpg","r") - Transport endpoint is not connected in ..."

or (when the URL isn't a valid one and reffers to my domain) :
"Warning: fopen("http://mydomain.org/images/foo10.jpg","r") - Success in ..."

how to suppress theses warnings ?

[Anon]

You could use @ in front at the function name to prevent the function to send warnings to the screen...

$addr="http://whatever.org/foo.jpg";
$fp = @fopen($addr,"r");
if (!$fp) {
echo "$addr is not a valid URL";
die;
}
else
echo "ok!";

But I can't get that script to work no matter what... But if it works for you, and you only want to get rid of those warnings.. use @fopen()

Andreas Bernhardsen
Graficonn