Re: re:Pinging from php srcipt

David Robley wrote: > On 16 Aug, Joseph H Blythe wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > I was just wondering how one would go about sending a ping to a remote > > host and recieving the response time in a php script. > How about: > > $command = "/path/to/ping -c 3 -q $host"; > $result = system($command, $retval); > > Tune ping arguments to suit and the output will be sent to the browser; > it's also in $result so you can grab that and deal with it as needed. > Note that you will want the c flag or ping will just keep on pingin' Cool thanks :-) I have played around with this after reading the ping man page. Does anyone know if you can get ping to output only the average and nothing else, or will I have to write a complex script to parse the output to only grab the average? Thanks again, Joseph Blythe -- BoldFX / Binary Logic 257 Churchill Road Prospect South Australia 5082 Ph: (08) 8342 0022 Fax: (08) 8342 0155 mailto: joseph.blythe@binarylogic.com.au