Download the contents of a URL in PHP even if it returns a 404

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I want to download the contents of a URL using PHP, even if the HTTP response code is 404. file_get_contents will error out, and I wasn't able to find an answer using Google. How can I do this?

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Step 1: check the return code: $content = file_get_contents("websitelink"); if($content === FALSE) { // handle error here... }

Step 2: suppress the warning by putting an error control operator (i.e. @) in front of the call to file_get_contents(): $content = @file_get_contents($site);

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