Lunch[box] — Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:04:45 +0000

Very nice. I'll start playing around with that in just a few minitues, thanks for the help!

andy206uk — Wed, 21 Jan 2004 16:59:33 +0000

Assuming the server has an IP address, just ping the server on each pageload and if you get a response you know its working, otherwise you can safely assume that its probably not. That can easily be done from within a php script. I don't know if its the most efficiant way, but its one way of doing it I guess...

Also, I did a little search on google and foud this snippet which might do what you want...

<?php
/* ---------------------------------------------- */
/* ------------ BEGIN PHP SNIPPET ----------------*/
/* ---------------------------------------------- */

preg_match(\"/^(http:\/\/)?([^\/]+)/i\", \"$link_url\", $matches);
$host = $matches[2];

// get all but one segments of host name
preg_match_all(\"/\.([^\.\/]+)/\",$host,$matches);

// first element does not want the period()
$matches[0][0] = $matches[1][0];
$url_host = implode('',$matches[0]);
// echo \"Domain: $url_host - Host: $host\";

$host = trim($host);
$noc = \"\";
$noc = fsockopen(\"$host\", 80, $errno, $errstr, 15); 
if(!$noc) { 
$noc = print(\"<img border=0 src=\\"dead.gif\\" align=\\"left\\">$host - Server not responding or very slow\"); 
} else { 
fclose($noc); 
$noc = print(\"<img border=0 src=\\"live.gif\\" align=\\"left\\">$host - Server running normally\");
}

 
?>

(from http://www.snipe.net/geek/toolz/server.php)