If the URL redirected and the new target is also redirected, we got the Locations in array. Also we got the HTTP codes in a number indexed values.
Here a PART of the header (not all), how it is look like with this redirection chain ( the id=4 is the landing page):
/test.php?id=1 -> /test.php?id=2 -> /test.php?id=3 -> /test.php?id=4
array
(
[0] => HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
[Location] => Array
(
[0] => /test.php?id=2
[1] => /test.php?id=3
[2] => /test.php?id=4
)
[1] => HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
[2] => HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
[3] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
)
In a typical situation we need only the landing page information, so here is a small code to get it:
$result = array();
$header = get_headers($url, 1);
foreach ($header as $key=>$value) {
if (is_array($value)) {
$value = end($value);
}
$result[$key] = $value;
}
