Re: How to find out if PC is online

thanks, good idea J.Veenhuijsen wrote:

Try : gethostbyaddr (PHP 3, PHP 4 ) Get the Internet host name corresponding to a given IP address string gethostbyaddr (string ip_address) Returns the host name of the Internet host specified by ip_address. If an error occurs, eturns ip_address. See also gethostbyname(). Jochem Jan Hrebenar wrote:

Hello All, I`d like to make script which will detect if my computer at IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is online. I try to use system("ping") but this function is not allowed on server. Can somebody tell me if exist any other way to do this? Pls excuse my english