PHP ping script

[Joveice]

Hi, I'm unable to make a ping script for PHP to display the latency of the ping. How would I do this?

[mikat]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1239068/ping-site-and-return-result-in-php

[Joveice]

Just now, mikat said:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1239068/ping-site-and-return-result-in-php

Already tryed this all the scripts return errors that the command does not exsist

[mikat]

Just now, Joveice said:

Already tryed this all the scripts return errors that the command does not exsist

follow this:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/13794500

and you do need to add that php ping script that he is talking about

 

[Joveice]

1 hour ago, mikat said:

follow this:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/13794500

and you do need to add that php ping script that he is talking about

 

Doesent work just a white page gets displayed

[mikat]

46 minutes ago, Joveice said:

Doesent work just a white page gets displayed

well then i can't help you any further, i'm not really familiar with php, sorry.

[Joveice]

46 minutes ago, Joveice said:

Doesent work just a white page gets displayed

Thank you anyways.

Where should I really place the .php? I made a new folder wp-scripts and added it there

[zushiba]

There's a few likely answers to your issue one of which is that you may be running PHP in a configuration which requires <?php at the opening of your script. Using <? as an open tag. As a result your page is throwing an error which, depending on your configuration would display a white page (instead of the actual error).

 

Another, you mention where to add your php and that you created a folder named wp-scripts. This leads me to believe that you're attempting to add some code to a Wordpress site. If that's the case then you'll want to add your script to the end of your functions.php file in your active themes folder.

I used one of the examples above to make a shortcode that would ping a site and return results. Here's the code I put in my functions.php

function ping_site ($atts) {
	$host = $atts['host'];
		$output = shell_exec('ping -c1 '. $host);
		echo "<pre>$output</pre>";

}
add_shortcode( 'ping', 'ping_site' );

Here's the shortcode I used on my Wordpress page 

[ping host="http://google.com"]

 

And here is what the resulting page looks like.

[burki94]

And If you are in a shared hosting environment your hoster may have disabled curl for security reasons, resulting in error messages like "call to undefined function curl_setopt" or the like.

[Joveice]

1 minute ago, zushiba said:

There's a few likely answers to your issue one of which is that you may be running PHP in a configuration which requires <?php at the opening of your script. Using <? as an open tag. As a result your page is throwing an error which, depending on your configuration would display a white page (instead of the actual error).

 

Another, you mention where to add your php and that you created a folder named wp-scripts. This leads me to believe that you're attempting to add some code to a Wordpress site. If that's the case then you'll want to add your script to the end of your functions.php file in your active themes folder.

I used one of the examples above to make a shortcode that would ping a site and return results. Here's the code I put in my functions.php

function ping_site ($atts) {
	$host = $atts['host'];
	if(filter_var($host, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL)){
		$output = shell_exec('ping -c1 google.com');
		echo "<pre>$output</pre>";
		
	}else {
		echo "Is not valid URL";
	}
}
add_shortcode( 'ping', 'ping_site' );

Here's the shortcode I used on my Wordpress page 

[ping host="http://google.com"]

 

And here is what the resulting page looks like.

No idea I gave up on it anyways since showing the ping to it self dident really do any information. So I added system load instead which is working right now

[Joveice]

1 minute ago, burki94 said:

And If you are in a shared hosting environment your hoster may have disabled curl for security reasons, resulting in error messages like "call to undefined function curl_setopt" or the like.

Private server

[zushiba]

I updated the code there the valid url thing doesn't play well in the ping command and I didn't add it to the string in that example. The output is correct though.