PHP to report a dead link?

[owaters]

Hi,

I am wanting to know if it is possible with PHP to report a dead link.

I need to test if my IP address reports a dead link, if it does then it will display an image to say I am offline, otherwise it will display an image to say I am online.

How can I do this?

Thanks in advance 🙂

[jlive]

to have a notification sent for each access to a page not found on your server you can write a your own 404 error document, making the action you prefer...

[yelvington]

I think owaters wants to test whether a home server is online or offline, using a public server to do so.

file() returns FALSE on failure, so try something like this:

if file('http://your.home.server/')
echo "It's up.";
else
echo "No way.";

Warning: This will BLOCK until a timeout failure, and will have an adverse effect on page behavior.