Small PHP Question

Hi,
I need to write a php script to check if a paticular URL is valid. I do not mean that the format is valid, I mean whether the website is active.
So www.digitalpoint.com would not return an error as the webpage is active. So a broken link detector.

Anyone help?
Thanks
projectWORD

 

pm me an i can help you we can talk about a small price tag as well

 

Sorry, I prefer not to pay out any cash. I am an able programmer and will be able to get it working, I just thought it would be helpful to get advice from someone who has maybe done it before or someone who knows how to do it

 

Here is a link to doing this using Curl in PHP.

http://php.assistprogramming.com/check-website-status-using-php-and-curl-library.html

Also someone here on DP posted similiar code, I saved it I think. If that doesn't work, I'll go dig it up.