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What I'm looking to do is check a file from my site for a specific varible containing current version info for a script i wrote. If the file can be reached yippie, but if it cannot i dont want some uguly error craping up the place, i'd like a nice 'server cannot be reached at the moment' message or something like it. The file to be reached is just a simple .txt or .php text file only containing the variable... any thoughts on how to do this anyone?

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Take a look at this:http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.http-get.phpYou might be able to do something like this:

$response = http_parse_message(http_get($url));

$response->responseCode will hold (oddly enough) the response code, which will be 200 for OK or 404 for not found, among others. $response->body will hold the body of the response (the text of the file).

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Including a file would only be equivalent to the string "OK" if you have a return statement in the include file that returns the string "OK". It's probably better to check for false:if ((include 'http://....') !== false)But that will also return false if the URL wrappers for include are not enabled, regardless of whether the server is online or not.Also:

Windows versions of PHP prior to PHP 4.3.0 do not support accessing remote files via this function, even if allow_url_fopen is enabled.
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