Check availability of URLs in a MySQL Database using PHP? - php

Question

I have three filed in my mysql table they are: id, url, status
How to check all urls from the column url and write either 1 (available) or 0 (unavailable) to the status column?
To just check urls manualy in php w/o mysql I could use this:
<?php
function Visit($url){
$agent = "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $agent);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch,CURLOPT_VERBOSE,false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 5);
$page=curl_exec($ch);
//echo curl_error($ch);
$httpcode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
curl_close($ch);
if($httpcode >= 200 && $httpcode < 300){
return true;
}
else {
return false;
}
}
if(Visit("http://www.google.com")){//maybe make it a variable from a result of a mysql select, but how to process it one by one?
echo "Website OK"; //maybe somesql here to wtite '1'
}
else{
echo "Website DOWN";//maybe somesql here to wtite '0'
}
?>

Answer 1

This is bad in terms of performance as doing queries in a loop is bad design, you should instead build a batch update and run the query in the end, but I've not enough time now to elaborate that. This is just to get you started:
$sql = "SELECT id,url FROM mytable";
$res = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());
if($res)
{
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($res))
{
$status = visit($row['url']) ? '1' : '0';
$id = $row['id'];
$update = "UPDATE mytable SET status = $status WHERE id = $id";
$res = mysql_query($update) or die(mysql_error());
}
}

Answer 2

echo mysql_num_rows($result) ? '1' : '0';

Answer 3

You can use sql queries for example:
select id, url from urltable;
update urltable set status=1 where id=99;
So, how about use this code with your Visit function:
$link = mysql_connect('localhost', 'test', 'pppppp');
$db_selected = mysql_select_db('test', $link);
$query = "select id, url from urltable";
$result = mysql_query($query);
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
$visitid = $row['id'];
$visiturl = $row['url'];
$visitstatus = Visit($visiturl)? 1: 0;
$upquery = sprintf("update urltable set status=%d where id=%d", $visitstatus, $visitid);
$upresult = mysql_query($upquery);
}