Pinging an Ip Address Using PHP and Echoing the Result

Pinging an IP address using PHP and echoing the result

NOTE: Solution below does not work on Windows. On linux exec a "which ping" command from the console, and set command path (of the suggested exec call) accordingly

I think you want to check the exit status of the command, whereas shell_exec gives you full output (might be dangerous shall command output change from command version to version. for some reason). Moreover your variable $ip is not interpreted within single quotes. You'd have to use double ones "". That might be the only thing you need to fix in order to make it work.

But I think following code can be more "portable". IMHO it is in fact better to catch the exit status, rather than trying to parse result string. IMHO it's also better to specify full path to ping command.

<?php
function pingAddress($ip) {
    $pingresult = exec("/bin/ping -n 3 $ip", $outcome, $status);
    if (0 == $status) {
        $status = "alive";
    } else {
        $status = "dead";
    }
    echo "The IP address, $ip, is  ".$status;
}

pingAddress("127.0.0.1");

how to ping ip addresses in php and give results

$ip =   "127.0.0.1";
exec("ping -n 3 $ip", $output, $status);
print_r($output);

output looks like below

Array
(
    [0] => 
    [1] => Pinging 127.0.0.1 with 32 bytes of data:
    [2] => Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
    [3] => Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
    [4] => Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
    [5] => 
    [6] => Ping statistics for 127.0.0.1:
    [7] =>     Packets: Sent = 3, Received = 3, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
    [8] => Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    [9] =>     Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms
)

Is any PHP Script available which is able to Ping an IP Address

$ip =   "127.0.0.1";
exec("ping -n 3 $ip", $output, $status);
print_r($output);

Output will be an Array. Something like this:

Array
(
    [0] => 
    [1] => Pinging 127.0.0.1 with 32 bytes of data:
    [2] => Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
    [3] => Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
    [4] => Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
    [5] => 
    [6] => Ping statistics for 127.0.0.1:
    [7] =>     Packets: Sent = 3, Received = 3, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
    [8] => Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    [9] =>     Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms
)

How can I ping a server port with PHP?

I think the answer to this question pretty much sums up the problem with your question.

If what you want to do is find out whether a given host will accept
TCP connections on port 80, you can do this:

$host = '193.33.186.70'; 
$port = 80; 
$waitTimeoutInSeconds = 1; 
if($fp = fsockopen($host,$port,$errCode,$errStr,$waitTimeoutInSeconds)){   
   // It worked 
} else {
   // It didn't work 
} 
fclose($fp);

For anything other than TCP it will be more difficult (although since
you specify 80, I guess you are looking for an active HTTP server, so
TCP is what you want). TCP is sequenced and acknowledged, so you will
implicitly receive a returned packet when a connection is successfully
made. Most other transport protocols (commonly UDP, but others as
well) do not behave in this manner, and datagrams will not be
acknowledged unless the overlayed Application Layer protocol
implements it.

The fact that you are asking this question in this manner tells me you
have a fundamental gap in your knowledge on Transport Layer protocols.
You should read up on ICMP and TCP, as well as the OSI Model.

Also, here's a slightly cleaner version to ping to hosts.

// Function to check response time
function pingDomain($domain){
    $starttime = microtime(true);
    $file      = fsockopen ($domain, 80, $errno, $errstr, 10);
    $stoptime  = microtime(true);
    $status    = 0;

    if (!$file) $status = -1;  // Site is down
    else {
        fclose($file);
        $status = ($stoptime - $starttime) * 1000;
        $status = floor($status);
    }
    return $status;
}

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