Check if a URL is live for conditional statement

[slb535]

Is there a way to check to see if a link goes to a valid page?

I have code that I only want displayed if the link that is surrounding it is valid.

I am in WordPress, if that matters. And I thought is_wp_error() might be the way to go, but it’s not working.

Hope I’m explaining this well enough. Here’s my code:

$practice_rep_link = “$practice_link-rep/”;
if (!is_wp_error($practice_rep_link)) {
echo ‘

Representative Cases’.’

‘;
}

[chrisburton]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2280394/check-if-an-url-exists-in-php

[slb535]

Yeah, I’d tried that previously. It doesn’t seem to work for me. It tells me a page exists when it definitely doesn’t. Could it be because I have a custom 404 page?

[chrisburton]

@slb535 Possibly.

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