Re: Searchingfor text within a string

On 29 Aug, Patrick Brown wrote: > You are absolutely right, sorry for doubting you. I rewrote the code and it > looks like this: > > <? > passthru("ping -c 1 $address", $result); > if ($result == 0){ > echo "Green Light\n"; > } else { > echo "Red Light\n"; > } > ?> > > I created a simple form that passes the $address variable to this script. > The results were a bit weird, The output of the ping command is also > displayed in the browser. How can I get rid of this? If you replace the > $address variable above with a valid, or invalid, address it works great. I > only get the weird output when I use the form. > > Thanks for your help, > > Pat > Check out exec which will put the last line of program output - and you might find the -q switch for ping useful. -- 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