How to get HTTP response code of HTTP request in PHP

Here the function to get the HTTP response code of a HTTP request. This function can easily be used to detect what is the status of a page that you are requesting (such as 404 - Not Found, 301 - Permenently Moved). Here is a complete reference for HTTP response codes.

1. function getResponseCode($url) {
2.     $ch= curl_init();
3.  
4.     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
5.     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
6.     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 1);
7.     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
8.     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
9.  
10.     curl_exec($ch);
11.  
12.     $details = curl_getinfo($ch);
13.  
14.     curl_close($ch);
15.     return $details['http_code'];
16. }