# Checking Site Question

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/checking-site-question/206061
**Category:** programming
**Created:** [November 4, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/checking-site-question/206061 "2006-11-04T20:11:01Z")
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### Author: ![dreamerp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/fbc32d/32.png) [@dreamerp](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dreamerp)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/checking-site-question/206061/1 "2006-11-04T20:11:01Z")

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Hello,

Is it possible to check to see if a web site is up and running in PHP.

Can you send something to a website and if the site is up it sends back a certain value, but if it is not running then it can send back a different value?

Any help will help!

Thanks