Whether operating a commercial site, a directory, or a personal site, it is important to ensure you do not have ‘dead’ links on your website. Broken links; links that point to inactive domains or 404 pages are of little use to your site...
On some shared hosting accounts, cURL, fopen or file_get_contents functions may be disabled ‘for security reasons’, yet you can still achieve HTTP fetching using socket functions. This simple class of code will allow you to do a wide...