Re: re:Pinging from php srcipt

Joseph H Blythe writes: > Lars Torben Wilson wrote: > > <?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 There is no system() command--just use backticks around the ping command, and all of its output is assigned to $result. (Make sure they're backticks, and not regular single quotes). For more information on backticks, check out: http://www.php.net/manual/language.operators.execution.php Cheers, Torben -- +----------------------------------------------------------------+ |Torben Wilson <torben@php.net> Netmill iTech| |http://www.coastnet.com/~torben http://www.netmill.fi| |Ph: 1 250 383-9735 torben@netmill.fi| +----------------------------------------------------------------+