Is it possible for PHP to follow a URL?

Question

Is it possible for PHP to take a URL, wait for the redirects to go through, and then fetch the url of the page it's on?

Answer 1

see http://www.php.net/manual/en/wrappers.http.php

-j

Answer 2

You also can use a wget / curl wrapper.

http://php.net/manual/en/book.curl.php

Answer 3

 $cr = curl_init("http://example.com"); 
 curl_setopt($cr, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
 curl_setopt($cr, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);   
 curl_exec($cr); 
 $info = curl_getinfo($cr);
 echo "url=".$info["url"];