Can anybody give me a small example on using ssh2 functions ( http://pecl.php.net/package/ssh2 ). I want to execute a command on the remote machine and want to get the ouput into a phpvariable. Here is my php code ... <?php $connection = ssh2_connect('127.0.0.1', 22); ssh2_auth_password($connection, 'root', 'myrootpassword'); $stream = ssh2_exec($connection, 'uptime'); echo $stream; ?> I'm getting some "Resource id #5" as output. What does this mean. How to get the actual output of my remote command. I'm using PHP-4.3.10 best regards, /Chandu