Re: Parsing SAR output with PHP.

Austin Gonyou wrote:

The real question I suppose is how could I parse this type of output into something I could use to make a graph. Example:

12:20:00 PM       CPU     %user     %nice   %system     %idle
12:30:00 PM       all      2.17      0.79      0.77     96.27

Problem is I'm not sure how to go about breaking up the rows to allow them to be inserted into the db. Thanks in advance for any ideas.

I guess fields are separated with tabs? Then just use split, as in: list($time,$cpu,$ser,$nice,$ststem, $idle)= split ("\t", $line); Then build your INSERT sql clause. Graph building is then a simple matter of passing the data as arrays to your php graph system.