Dead link script

[damdempsel]

I want to make a script that E-mails me when there is a dead link on my website. I have the E-mail part of it set up, the only thing I cant seem to do is get the page that the dead link is on. Is there a way to do this? Can you use PHP to find the last visited page? If you need me to clarify something just let me know. Any help is welcome. Thanks.

[alexjb]

By dead link I assume you mean 404? While I've never done what you're asking, you could probably configure apache to load a custom .php script on 404. It would then be a simple case of having the script retrieve the URL and emailing you the details.

[damdempsel]

Yes, I do mean 404. I have a custom 404 error page that should send me an E-mail of the page that the dead link is on. E-mail works fine, I just cant figure out how to get the page the link is on.

[alexjb]

$URI = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

 

edit: wait, you're redirecting on a 404? In this case it would be given by:

$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];

[damdempsel]

Thanks.