Check if open for Registration

[David_B]

Hi guys,

 

First post here, I'm fairly new to php, hopefully with all the great info here I'll be a pro pretty fast ;-)

 

I'm looking at writing a script that will check

 

1. If a website/forum is open for registration. I.E users are allowed to register for an account.

2. If a website/forum is online.

 

I imagine 2 is fairly easy, but I'm lost when it comes to checking is a website/forum is open for registration.

 

Any ideas how I could pull this off?

 

Thanks

[btherl]

You can fetch the page using curl (or a simpler method like file_get_contents()) and use strpos() to look for a string that only appears on the page when registration is open.