How to catch 404 when requesting api?

Question

PHP

Hello. I have a site that knocks on api to another site, I get a response from it with the help, file_get_contentsbut what if the server does not respond? How can I catch 404 and then perform some actions?

Answer 1

function get_contents() {
  file_get_contents("http://example.com");
  var_dump($http_response_header);
}

Better use cURL, it will be faster.