I have 5 cluster servers on Unix[total of 10 unix boxes] and 5 windows servers, which I need to manage. I am looking at making a portal sort of thing, which would give me a snapshot of all the critical details, through the browser.[Mountpoint usages, cluster statuses, Oracle database health, tablespaces info etc ].
How do I go about this? I have apache installed and running on One Unix box. I started out with using the php's exec() command, and planned to use the remsh commands to fetch data from all servers, which I later realised wasn't working out.
How do I go about this?
Any pointers please.
I strongly believe I can get this done through php, but I'm not that familiar with php,but would love to get working on it.
Help please!
remsh is not allowed on my environment, typically!
I would advise that you go with an off-the-shelf solution and not try to write your own. This could be open source or proprietary. I have seen the free version of this tool and it can show much of what you described: Zenoss
Take a look at Nagios:
http://www.nagios.org/
You can also Google for "open source monitoring software"
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What I'm looking for is an easy way to get either individual core usage or total CPU usage for the system that the PHP Script is running on.
However I'm unable to do so. I've looked all over for all manner of solutions from using perf (with and without passthru) to using winmgmts through COM.
The issue is, some of these will work on Windows if you use Apache, but with IIS the security restrictions stop PHP from being able to use for example winmgmts through COM so I just get back a null object.
How can I solve this? - I've honestly tried every solution I can find on the internet and while there is lots of information about how to raise the permissions all the guides point to IIS 7 or earlier and are no longer applicable to IIS 8.5 with literally the suggested option changes being non-existent.
If anyone could help me with this I'd be really appreciative, a workaround like using a third party application that could provide this data would also be acceptable if I can query the data through PHP either from a file or network etc Even a asp.net script that I could query? (I don't know anything about asp.net but I could use it for this single thing if it'd work?)
Thank you.
I managed to solve this and I hope it helps someone else.
What you must do is convert the folder where your PHP (or asp) will execute to an Application. So the structure will look like this:
Website Name
-> Application Name
Then you want to select the parent folder, the Website Name folder and go to "Basic Settings" in the far right actions pane and select "Connect As..." and connect as an Administrator account.
Once you've done this the application will inherent the credentials you specified on the parent website folder and you'll now have full access to perf, wmi and so on.
If you only give the credentials directly to the application it doesn't work and it also doesn't work if you don't convert your folder where your scripts will execute to an application. This is where I was being tripped up and the documentation online is very sparse.
I'd like to thank the good people at the phpsysinfo github for their IIS documentation which pointed me on the right track on needing to convert a site to an application which was part of the puzzle I was missing.
I have developed a PHP-MySQL web application, which is a school-based project.
My client wants this application to be converted into a .exe file such that it can be installed on his desktop and use it.
How the PHP website can be converted to a .exe file and can it be run without the need of a database/server software?
Please advice.
The convenient solution is not to convert the website to .exe. I think it will be better if you have portable server/php/mysql and make the website work from a usb or CD with autorun.
NuSphere's PhpDock claims to do this: It serves as a deployment helper and comes with a bundled web server. However, I don't know about the database part, and it's not free.
PhpDock enables you to deploy any PHP web application as a Stand Alone Windows Desktop application w/o any changes in the code.
I don't know that particular product, but I have been using their IDE for years and am quite happy.
try using a site-specific browser. it will make a desktop app that is basically a portal running to your webapp. try this one:
https://mozillalabs.com/prism/
It allows alot of advanced features like system tray icons and such. I have used it many times!
Hope this helps, JL
Short answer: Not possible.
Long answer: It depends.
You could install a web- and database server on his machine (or create an installer that does it) and run the application locally on his machine.
or
You keep the application on a server and just provide a launcher that opens his browser and points it to the URL of the application.
As Artefacto mentioned, it might be a good idea to switch to SQLite instead of MySQL but depending on how your application is written it might require a lot of code and SQL Query changes.
No. You have at least to remove the dependency on MySQL (and use e.g. sqlite instead).
Then, you would either have to:
Convert the webpages to windows dialogs. This would completely change your application (e.g. what would originally be http "form submissions" would be someting completely different). At this point, it'd much easier to write a .NET application
Bundle a web server (e.g. Apache) with PHP installed.
Another try would be to turn your php project into PHP-GTK (http://gtk.php.net/).
Yet another one is to give HPHP a try (https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/wiki/) and try to turn the generated C code into something like a .DLL in .NET and use it for the logic while coding the UI in say, C#.
Just create a simple program in C or C++ that will just add icon in Start menu, desktop and Quickstart. If your client clicks the icon it will open the default OS browser and point it to URI of your application online.
That might fool your client :)
Or maybe it will be enough for him (he might be asking you to convert it to exe because he can't remember URI or something - ask him what is the reason).
You can use xampp open-source project to pack your PHP site into an executable file.
Use the following steps:-
1. Download Xampp source code.
Add your PHP file inside htdocs directory(Ref:- https://sourceforge.net/p/xampp/code/HEAD/tree/win32/xampp/htdocs/).
Now compile the XAMPP source code and distribute it.
For DATABASE creation and initial data loading in the database, you can code your site in such way that if database is not created, it redirects the page to install.php which do the database creation and data loading task using sql file provided(you need to add SQL file containing database structure and required data).
Don't forget to delete the SQL file post installation of database.
Not sure that's gonna be possible but have a look at:
WinBinder
WinBinder is a new open source
extension for PHP, the script
programming language. It allows PHP
programmers to easily build native
Windows applications.
(source: winbinder.org)
Solution 1:
There are several solutions to convert your web application into a desktop application, the one I prefer is the open source solution: PhpDesktop, but unfortunately it only supports SQLite.
Best Solution:
To convert your PHP application with MySQL I know a paid solution that does this: 'ExeOutPut For Desktop', it is the best for this job
Php desktop is the way to go, it's actually very simple to modify to the version of PHP you want to use and is open source too https://github.com/cztomczak/phpdesktop
There exists numerous solutions on generating a thumbnail or an image preview of a webpage. Some of these solutions are webs-based like websnapshots, windows libraries such as PHP's imagegrabscreen (only works on windows), and KDE's wkhtml. Many more do exist.
However, I'm looking for a GUI-less solution. Something I can create an API around and link it to php or python.
I'm comfortable with python, php, C, and shell. This is a personal project, so I'm not interested in commercial applications as I'm aware of their existence.
Any ideas?
You can run a web browser or web control within Xvfb, and use something like import to capture it.
I'll never get back the time I wasted on wkhtml and Xvfb, along with the joy of embedding a monolithic binary from google onto my system. You can save yourself a lot of time and headache by abandoning wkhtml2whatever completely and installing phantom.js. Once I did that, I had five lines of shell code and beautiful images in no time.
I had a single problem - using ww instead of www in a url caused the process to fail without meaningful error messages. Eventually I saw the dns lookup problem, and my faith was restored.
But seriously, every other avenue of thumbnailing seemed to be out of date and/or buggy.
phantom.js = it changed my life.
I'm looking for an alternative to Package Foundry. It doesn't have to be - and I'm sure won't be - free or anything like that.
It also needs to be able to create a configuration file, which asks for their database details and such. Without that, it's just an automated FTP app, which is of limited use.
Are there any alternatives which might be able to automate the uploading and then just request some info from the user, and then perform a check to make sure they're valid?
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open source system to create Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore very suitable for internet distribution.
Or distribute your application via a PEAR channel.
Take a look at InstallJammer. It's a free, open source installer that can do everything you need. Drop by the forums if you need some help getting started with your installer, and I'll be glad to show you how to do what you want here. It's actually been done by many before, so it's not all that hard. :)
I know there is not a direct way to take a screen shot of a web page with PHP. What would be the most straightforward way to accomplish this? Are there any command line tools that could do this that I might be able to execute from a PHP script (I'm thinking something that would run in a 'NIX OS (OS X and/or Linux in particular)?
Edit: Or maybe some sort of web service I could access via SOAP or REST or ...
Edit #2: I found a related question discussing the CLI option, but I'd still be open to other methods if anyone knows of anything.
See webkit2png for an OSX commandline program that does this.
The page also mentions Linux alternatives.
[edit]: wkhtml2image is the newest kid in town, and it works better then anything else i've ever used.
[edit2]: As of 2014, PhantomJS seems to be the way to go, as it has the newest webkit version of the alternatives I know about.
[edit3]: In 2019, Puppeteer is the way to go. Official headless chrome, always up to date.
You can use the GD functions imagegrabscreen() or imagegrabwindow() to take a screenshot, but they're only available on Windows at the moment.
http://www.thumbshots.org/
html2ps does a decent job for relatively simple pages, and it requires very little in terms of external binaries, meaning it's very easy to install/use. If you control the pages you'll be capturing, then you can ensure that they'll render appropriately in html2ps. If you're hoping to capture arbitrary URLs, however, I'm not sure that the PHP port of HTML2PS is up to the task. It's also not the fastest thing in the world (expect render times in the seconds for complex pages), but that doesn't really matter for some applications.
Not sure if this would be enough for you, because it has some added stuff there, but would be worth giving it a try: http://www.snap.com
It's possible to get a base64 encoded image of a site by using the Google pagespeed api.
You can specify desktop or mobile views, but you are limited to an image of a certain size.