Redirect Link

[MeteoraCorp]

I am wondering if PHP can do this job.

Scenario :
Let say I'm creating a website to contains 100 of links/URL that have been submitted by some users/surfers. I want the link/URL to be a clean link/URL which mean the link/URL is not a broken/dead link/URL that produce "Error 404" whan you opened it and the link/URL that not redirect to other website.

Is there any way in PHP to check the link/URL that redirect to other website?

Best Regards,

[AstroTeg]

You could have PHP check the link and see what kind of response you get back. I think you could get away with using fopen() and the URL or use CURL(). If you didn't want to get that fancy, there's always Lynx and Wget that could be run from the command prompt (although I think this would be more work).