function does_url_exists($url) {

    $ch = curl_init($url);

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, true);

    curl_exec($ch);

    $code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);



    if ($code == 200) {

        $status = true;

    } else {

        $status = false;

    }

    curl_close($ch);

    return $status;

}