Re: Ping

Unfortunately I added some code today to show the local time/date and haven't tested them since ;) If the machine being pinged is up it shows a green "Light" if it loses a ping it'll show red and if it loses 5 in a row it's name goes red and there should (this is the bit I haven't tested) be a time stamp next to it to show when contact was lost. This currently only works on a *nix system (I don't need to run it on M$) and requires the GD library although it would be a simple matter to change them to run without GD you also need sessions with use_cookies enabled (php.ini). Anyone is welcome to use these BTW, just drop me a line if you do (so I can feel I'm "making a difference" ;) Cheers, Brad ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tshering Norbu" <norbu@druknet.net.bt> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 20:03 Subject: [PHP] Ping Dear list, I have this proposal: I work in ISP where we have a web site. On our web site, we would like to ping, say 3 other distant web sites at every interval of 10 minutes. We would like to have the result like say " The internet is down" message displayed on our homepage if the PING doesn't get reply. If there is a reply, then nothing should be displayed. So I would like to know the PHP functions/code to do that (i.e the PING function). I am sure that can be done in PHP. Could someone please instruct me how to go about it. Thanks. NOBBY