On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 12:08 +0530, Gaurav Kumar wrote: > There is no best function as such. Everything depends upon your requirement. > > You can also use fopen() to get the contents of the remote file and do some > error handling that if you get any content then display image else a message > etc.. > > Gaurav Kumar > (Team Lead- open source) > oswebstudio.com > > > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 4:06 AM, CRM <crm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > Not sure of the best approach, need your feedback. I have 4 images on a > > website. These are used in navigation. When I load a reference webpage on > > my > > local machine the local page calls 4 images from an external website, each > > image will be on a different domain. > > > > What I want to see is if the navigation images/buttons can be > > loaded/displayed > > in my browser. If they can, then I will display the images on my local > > page. > > If the images cannot be loaded, then this indicates some connection issue > > and > > the result will be some text like 'Site Offline'. So just by glancing at my > > local machine reference page I can tell if one or more of the different > > sites > > is or is not available. > > > > So what is the best function to use? > > > > if ( @file_get_contents( DOMAIN_PATH . > > "images/navigation/nav_globalissa.png" )): > > > > or ??? > > > > Please also cc info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > Thanks for any helpful suggestions. > > > > Sincerely, > > > > Rob > > Global I.S. S.A. > > Software Powers the Net > > Email: crm at globalissa dot com > > > > * * * The Forge of Globalissa ~ PHP Foobar Machine * * * > > http://globalissa.com/forge/ > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > The way I've always seen this approached before is by using the wget command, which can be asked to just return the headers for a page. In your case you'd be looking for all 200 codes, which means that all the sites are up. This is faster than asking to return a full image each time. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
