Check Url Is Valid With Php

[ProblemHelpPlease]

I have around 75,000 links the URL's of which use data generated from databases. The should all work having been URL encoded but I was wondering if there was a way to check the links are vaild without viewing them.Any ideas

[justsomeguy]

You can use fsockopen to open a connection to a remote server, or if the URL wrapper is enabled on your server then you can use file_get_contents to get a specific file. It would be worth testing that to see what it returns when you try to load a file that you know doesn't exist. You can also use the CURL library as a replacement for the fsock functions.