Pinging an IP address using PHP and echoing the result - php

Question

I have the following function that I doesn't work so far. I would like to ping an IP address and then to echo whether the IP is alive or not.
function pingAddress($ip){
$pingresult = shell_exec("start /b ping $ip -n 1");
$dead = "Request timed out.";
$deadoralive = strpos($dead, $pingresult);
if ($deadoralive == false){
echo "The IP address, $ip, is dead";
} else {
echo "The IP address, $ip, is alive";
}
}
When I call this function using the example:
pingAddress("127.0.0.1")
The echo result is always 'dead' - no matter what.
Could someone please help me where I'm going wrong?
And/OR is there a better method of doing this with the same result?
Many thanks.
Update: Have amended code to include the double quotes but still getting the same (incorrect) results.

Answer 1

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");

Answer 2

This also did not work for me in Wordpress. I also tried -t and -n and other ways, but did not work. I used,
function pingAddress($ip) {
$pingresult = exec("/bin/ping -c2 -w2 $ip", $outcome, $status);
if ($status==0) {
$status = "alive";
} else {
$status = "dead";
}
$message .= '<div id="dialog-block-left">';
$message .= '<div id="ip-status">The IP address, '.$ip.', is '.$status.'</div><div style="clear:both"></div>';
return $message;
}
// Some IP Address
pingAddress("192.168.1.1");
This worked perfectly for me, finally.
I referred this from http://www.phpscriptsdaily.com/php/php-ping/
Hope this will help
Well I want to modify this as it is working fine on my localhost but not on my live server
For live server, I got another thing which now works for both local as well as live.
$fp = fSockOpen($ip,80,$errno,$errstr,1);
if($fp) { $status=0; fclose($fp); } else { $status=1; }
Then I show the Server is up for 0 and down for 1.
This works perfectly for me. I got this from Ping site and return result in PHP Thanks #karim79

Answer 3

I have developed the algorithm to work with heterogeneous OS, both Windows and Linux.
Implement the following class:
<?php
class CheckDevice {
public function myOS(){
if (strtoupper(substr(PHP_OS, 0, 3)) === (chr(87).chr(73).chr(78)))
return true;
return false;
}
public function ping($ip_addr){
if ($this->myOS()){
if (!exec("ping -n 1 -w 1 ".$ip_addr." 2>NUL > NUL && (echo 0) || (echo 1)"))
return true;
} else {
if (!exec("ping -q -c1 ".$ip_addr." >/dev/null 2>&1 ; echo $?"))
return true;
}
return false;
}
}
$ip_addr = "151.101.193.69"; #DNS: www.stackoverflow.com
if ((new CheckDevice())->ping($ip_addr))
echo "The device exists";
else
echo "The device is not connected";

Answer 4

i just wrote a very fast solution by combining all knowledge gain above
function pinger($address){
if(strtolower(PHP_OS)=='winnt'){
$command = "ping -n 1 $address";
exec($command, $output, $status);
}else{
$command = "ping -c 1 $address";
exec($command, $output, $status);
}
if($status === 0){
return true;
}else{
return false;
}
}

Answer 5

this works fine for me..
$host="127.0.0.1";
$output=shell_exec('ping -n 1 '.$host);
echo "<pre>$output</pre>"; //for viewing the ping result, if not need it just remove it
if (strpos($output, 'out') !== false) {
echo "Dead";
}
elseif(strpos($output, 'expired') !== false)
{
echo "Network Error";
}
elseif(strpos($output, 'data') !== false)
{
echo "Alive";
}
else
{
echo "Unknown Error";
}

Answer 6

For Windows Use this class
$host = 'www.example.com';
$ping = new Ping($host);
$latency = $ping->ping();
if ($latency !== false) {
print 'Latency is ' . $latency . ' ms';
}
else {
print 'Host could not be reached.';
}
https://github.com/geerlingguy/Ping

Answer 7

Based on the great answer of #tiamiyu-saheed-oluwatosin I wrote this small function in shorthand if/else (ternary) style, working on both Windows and Linux, to check if a second PHP server is up and running in my LAN.
function running($ip) {
exec("ping -{strtolower(PHP_OS)=='winnt'?'n':'c'} 1 $ip", $out, $res);
return ($res === 0 ? true : false);
}
Use :
if(running('192.168.1.20') {
// execute some code...
}

Answer 8

This works fine with hostname, reverse IP (for internal networks) and IP.
function pingAddress($ip) {
$ping = exec("ping -n 2 $ip", $output, $status);
if (strpos($output[2], 'unreachable') !== FALSE) {
return '<span style="color:#f00;">OFFLINE</span>';
} else {
return '<span style="color:green;">ONLINE</span>';
}
}
echo pingAddress($ip);

Answer 9

Do check the man pages of your ping command before trying some of these examples out (always good practice anyway). For Ubuntu 16 (for example) the accepted answer doesn't work as the -n 3 fails (this isn't the count of packets anymore, -n denotes not converting the IP address to a hostname).
Following the request of the OP, a potential alternative function would be as follows:
function checkPing($ip){
$ping = trim(`which ping`);
$ll = exec($ping . '-n -c2 ' . $ip, $output, $retVar);
if($retVar == 0){
echo "The IP address, $ip, is alive";
return true;
} else {
echo "The IP address, $ip, is dead";
return false;
}
}

Answer 10

This is work with me:
<?php
class CheckDevice {
public function myOS(){
if (strtoupper(substr(PHP_OS, 0, 3)) === (chr(87).chr(73).chr(78)))
return true;
return false;
}
public function ping($ip_addr){
if ($this->myOS()){
if (!exec("ping -n 1 -w 1 ".$ip_addr." 2>NUL > NUL && (echo 0) || (echo 1)"))return true;
} else {
if (!exec("ping -q -c1 ".$ip_addr." >/dev/null 2>&1 ; echo $?"))
return true;
}return false;
}
}
$ip_addr = "192.168.1.1";
if ((new CheckDevice())->ping($ip_addr))
echo "The device exists";
else
echo "The device is not connected";

Answer 11

I use this function :
<?php
function is_ping_address($ip) {
exec('ping -c1 -w1 '.$ip, $outcome, $status);
preg_match('/([0-9]+)% packet loss/', $outcome[3], $arr);
return ( $arr[1] == 100 ) ? false : true;
}