redirect-checker.php

<?php

function checkForRedirects($URL) {
  $ch = curl_init($URL);
  
  curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
  
  curl_exec($ch);
  $original_status_code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
  
  
  curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,true);
  curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);

  curl_exec($ch);
  $original_url = $URL;
  $destination_url = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL);
  $destination_status_code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
  $redirect_count = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_REDIRECT_COUNT);
  $page_size = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_SIZE_DOWNLOAD);
  curl_close($ch);

  $code = array(
    'original_url' => $original_url, 
    'destination_url' => $destination_url, 
    'original_status_code' => $original_status_code,
    'destination_status_code' => $destination_status_code,
    'redirect_count' => $redirect_count,
    'page_size' => $page_size,
  );
  
  return $code;
}

$page_status = checkForRedirects('http://yahoo.com');


var_dump($page_status);