file_get_contents without warnings - possible?

[s_shrum]

I'm trying to code a 'file exist' subroutine for URL-based calls but can't get past the issue with fopen generating error messages to the browser when the call fails.

Is there a function (or switch for fopen) that I can use that will return just FALSE (no warnings) if the file (or in my case a call to a URL) fails?

Granted, file_get_contents works great for files that exist but short of modifying the php.ini to turn warnings off (which I really don't want to do), I can't find anything that will work.

Any ideas?

[LordShryku]

You can suppress the error with @ attached to the function.

$file = @fopen('http://somewhere.com/somefile.ext', 'r');
if($file) {
   # do your thing
}
else {
   # didn't work
}

[s_shrum]

PERFECT!

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Thanks