title: Test if webpage is responding via php
body: <p>I'm trying to build a basic "status" page using php that will tell my users if various services (webpages we use) are at least serving up pages (which isn't 100% guarantee of working but its pretty good indicator)</p>
  
  <p>what i would like to do is something like</p>
  
  <p>www.domainname.com/mediawiki/index.php and make sure that returns the page or not</p>
  
  <p>I'm pretty new to php so im not even sure what function im looking for.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>