Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours, Third Edition

Exercises

1. Create a script that accepts a Web hostname (such as http://www.microsoft.com) from user input. Send the host a HEAD request using fsockopen() to create the connection. Print the response to the browser. Remember to handle the possibility that no connection can be established.

2. Create a script that accepts a message from the user and mails it to you. Add server variables to the user’s message to tell you about her browser and IP address.