Re: re:Pinging from php srcipt

On 16 Aug, Joseph H Blythe wrote: > Lars Torben Wilson wrote: > >> Joseph H Blythe writes: >> > 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? >> > >> >> My local version of ping doesn't offer this option, but here's a >> (*very*) quick-and-dirty method: >> >> <?php >> $host = 'www.thebuttlesschaps.com'; >> if (!$result = ping -c 3 -q $host) { >> echo "Unknown host\n"; >> } else { >> /* The only slashes that show up ni the output are those right >> * around the information we want, so split it up on that. */ >> $result = explode('/', $result); >> $result = $result[3]; >> echo "Average ping time: $result\n"; >> } >> ?> >> > > Hey this works great, but how do I supress the output from the system command? > > Mutch appreciated :-) > > Joseph Blythe In that case, I think you could try exec() rather than system(). Cheers -- David Robley | WEBMASTER & Mail List Admin RESEARCH CENTRE FOR INJURY STUDIES | http://www.nisu.flinders.edu.au/ AusEinet | http://auseinet.flinders.edu.au/ Flinders University, ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA