file_get_contents when url doesn't exist

Question

I'm using file_get_contents() to access a URL.

file_get_contents('http://somenotrealurl.com/notrealpage'); 

If the URL is not real, it return this error message. How can I get it to error gracefully so that I know that the page doesn't exist and act accordingly without displaying this error message?

file_get_contents('http://somenotrealurl.com/notrealpage')  [function.file-get-contents]:  failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found  in myphppage.php on line 3 

for example in zend you can say: if ($request->isSuccessful())

$client = New Zend_Http_Client(); $client->setUri('http://someurl.com/somepage');  $request = $client->request();  if ($request->isSuccessful()) {  //do stuff with the result } 

Answer 1

You need to check the HTTP response code:

function get_http_response_code($url) {     $headers = get_headers($url);     return substr($headers[0], 9, 3); } if(get_http_response_code('http://somenotrealurl.com/notrealpage') != "200"){     echo "error"; }else{     file_get_contents('http://somenotrealurl.com/notrealpage'); }