FSockOpen Error

[ajicles]

I have  a remote shoutcast server and I was wonder if I could use an if statement to see if the server is offline or online. Except when its offline the script has to wait for it to time out then display an error message, which takes along time. So I want to check if it is online to return the online message and if not then it returns offline message.

 

Thanks

~AJ

 

 $fp = fsockopen("$server", $port, $errno, $errstr, 30);
if (!$fp) 
{
    echo "Offline";
}
else
{ 
echo "Online"; 
}