url validation

[souravsasi]

Hi ,
I need to vaidate the given URL,whether the given url is valid or not.

Either Javascript(first preference) or php code.

can u help me?

[nike]

Hello, souravsasi!

Here is the PHP code, that you can use:
<?

$up = fsockopen("www.yourURL.com", 30); // the URL, well is obvious, but its important that you dont put [url]http://[/url] or it will not work, and 30 is how long in seconds it should run for before it determines as a timeout.
if($up)
{

echo "<a href=\"http://www.yourURL.com\">Go to URL</ a>"; //displays link to URL if its valid
}
?>

Bereza Nikita
Rapid Internet Development Department
E-mail: [e-mail]
Alar Information Technologies,
URL: http://www.alarit.com

[mjr]

use fsockopen('myhost.com',10) of just fopen('http://myhost.com','r') functions