[SOLVED] Echo Ping

[Mr-Moo]

Hello,

 

This would be my second post here. Gotta say, I love this community. I am creating a small site and I am lost. I am horrid at PHP and currently working to improve it.

 

What I am trying to do is setup a small ping. I was wondering if anyone knew how to setup a ping to ping a website/ip and echo it out to display on a webpage.

 

Any help will be appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

[Warptweet]

I'm afraid the only pinging I know of it here...

 

http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/function.pg-ping.php

 

Which is pinging a database.

I'm positive there is a method you can use to ping a website, but I doubt there is a function to directly do such a thing.

[trq]

<?php

  function ping($host) {
    echo "<pre>" . shell_exec("ping -c 1 $host") . "</pre>";
  }

  ping("google.com");

?>

[Barand]

If you get "Bad option -c", as I did,

 

change "-c" above to "-n"

[Mr-Moo]

Thank you all for helping me out!

 

The first code works, second one supplied gives me a blank page. Not sure why.

 

Appreciate your help!

 

Thanks!

[hiewps]

hello there, currently im developing a ping program..

 

<?php

 

  function ping($host) {

    echo "<pre>" . shell_exec("ping -c 1 $host") . "</pre>";

  }

 

  ping("google.com");

 

?>

 

can i use this to connect to ipv6?

thanks u very much~