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So in this small quick tutorial i am going to tell you a very short way to determine weather a website is up or not? We will be using the PHP's cURL library in order to determine so. So lets start: ​function urlUP($url){     //Validate the URL first!     if(filter_var($url,FILTER_VALIDATE_URL)){ $handle = curl_init(urldecode($url)); curl_setopt($handle,  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE); $response = curl_exec($handle); $httpCode = curl_getinfo($handle, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE); if($httpCode >= 200 && $httpCode < 400){ return true; }else{ return false; } curl_close($handle); }  ...

SQL Injection, a commonly method used by majority of hackers and which is the cause for about 70% of the hack's all over the cyber warfare. Mostly hacker uses this (mysql injection) vulnerability to exploit the website and gain...

Starting from PHP 5.2 we have bunch of built-in functions which makes it easier for programmers to perform small functions without writing up code for them,one of such function is filter_var(); , using filter_var().  We can...