[SOLVED] Website Checker Script

[JDMallion]

Hi guys,

 

I want to write a PHP script to check several of the websites that we run. I will have it run each day using a CRON job therefore automatically checking our sites each morning.

 

I basically just want the script to go to each website and check that they are still up and running. Now I know that I will have to get the HTTP server response code to work out whether or not the website is up or not. But I am not 100% sure on how to do this!! A point in the right direction would be really good.

 

Thanks in advance for any help!!

[rarebit]

On each server have a page that just outputs it's name and the time on one line, and log it... If there's no response, then it's down and log you can log that... I'd use wget to do the call...

[HuggieBear]

I think I'd use the cURL library for this one, or maybe sockets as they'll probably give you better control over your requests.

 

Regards

Huggie

[d.shankar]

Yea use cURL.

 

I hope this is what you need.

 

<?php

$yoursites=array("www.google.com","www.yahoo.com","www.73645jgfsf.com"); //Enter your all websites here as shown.

for($i=0;$i<count($yoursites);$i++)
{
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL, $yoursites[$i]);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,1);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER,false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER,false); 
$source = curl_exec($ch);
$httpCode = curl_getinfo($ch,CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
if($httpCode==200)
{
echo $yoursites[$i]." is up.<br>";
}
else
{
echo $yoursites[$i]." is down.<br>";
}
curl_close($ch);
}
?>

[JDMallion]

Thanks loads guys!! Very much appreciated! God I love these forums! 

[d.shankar]

Did the code help or do you need someother help ?

[JDMallion]

Pretty sure that will do want I want it to mate, will just have to check we have Curl installed on the server!    Or does it come with the standard PHP install?

 

[d.shankar]

No JD you have to install curl package.

 

Download the latest php from here

http://www.php.net/downloads.php#v5

 

To install cURL ..check this link

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.curl.php

 

Hope this could help.