help with a php script !!

[litewarez]

another way you could do it is.

function check_host($host)
{
    if(false !== ($context = get_headers($host,1)))
    {
         /*
             $context will look like so
             Array
             (
                 [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
                 [Date] => Sat, 29 May 2004 12:28:14 GMT
                 [Server] => Apache/1.3.27 (Unix)  (Red-Hat/Linux)
                 [Last-Modified] => Wed, 08 Jan 2003 23:11:55 GMT
                 [ETag] => "3f80f-1b6-3e1cb03b"
                 [Accept-Ranges] => bytes
                 [Content-Length] => 438
                 [Connection] => close
                 [Content-Type] => text/html
             )
         */
         return true;
    }
} 

that might be a small alternative, and also you can then implement header checks as well