see: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.exec.php -----Original Message----- From: bo [mailto:bo1st@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 12:29 PM To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: ping Hi, This is not exactly fall in the category of php and mysql, but hopefully that you can shed a light for me. My question is how can we write a php ping script to ping some website and output the ip address of the website automatically on webpage? It's the same idea that ping www.google.com in cmd prompt(@win2k)but output the result in a webpage. Any feedbacks and info will be appreciated. Thanks. Bo -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php