relocate on a servers existance

[Anon]

I want a php script to Determine if a server, "X", exists. If it exists then html page "A" loads from server "Z", when server "X" does not exist, then html file "B" loads from server "Z".

note:Server X has files if i need to find a file to check it if i have to.

Doug

[dies_irae]

Hi, try something like this

<?
$fp = fsockopen("X", 80);
if ($fp) {
echo join('', file("http://Z/A"));
} elseif (!$fp) {
echo join('', file("http://Z/B"));
}

?>

Thats the first thing that came up. 🙂

// Good luck

[deckrdx]

You could try using fsockopen to open up a connection to the server, and if it returns a valid file pointer, you close it and load page A, otherwise you load page B. I would go one step further and use port 80 and make sure you get valid http responses from server X.

[Anon]

YES! It worked! Thanks. I've been trying to figure this out for a while now!