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/** https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1363925/check-whether-image-exists-on-remote-url
**/

function checkRemoteFile($url)
{
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
    // don't download content
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

    $result = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    if($result !== FALSE)
    {
        return true;
    }
    else
    {
        return false;
    }
}