phpseclib - issues with php versions - php

Question

Running on PHP 5.2.13 this works fine :
each line of output is shown..
include('includes/Net/SSH2.php');
$ssh = new Net_SSH2('127.0.0.1');
if (!$ssh->login('root', 'password')) {
exit('Login Failed');
}
function packet_handler($str)
{
echo $str;
}
$ssh->exec('ping 127.0.0.1', 'packet_handler');
Running the same code on PHP 5.3.17 returns nothing.
I'd have to use something like
echo $ssh->exec('timeout 5 ping 127.0.0.1');
And wait for it to time out.
Any idea why this isn't working on the new version ?
Thanks

Answer 1

Try use new NET_SSH2 version. I used composer and your code work well for me (I have PHP 5.6 on my local PC). My steps was:
1) I created new empty folder
2) Run composer:
composer require "phpseclib/phpseclib"
this will create vendor folder with NET_SSH2 version = 0.3.9
3) Then I changed your source code (for composer autoload):
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
$ssh = new Net_SSH2('127.0.0.1');
if (!$ssh->login('root', 'password')) {
exit('Login Failed');
}
function packet_handler($str) {
echo $str;
}
$ssh->exec('ping 127.0.0.1', 'packet_handler');
And all work well. I think you have the problem because you are using old library version. You can try use composer or just download new library version from GitHub.
I hope it will help.