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Posting Data throught a Socket

This example opens up a socket connection using the fsockopen function and post some data which are encoded. It retrieves the resulting page including the headers. There is an online demo.

• Platforms
  • Linux,
  • Windows,
  • FreeBSD,
  • Mac OSX,
  • Sun Solaris
• Licenses
  • Other Free / Open Source License

Check your server status - a basic ping

In this tutorial I will show you how to check whether a domain, server is up or down and how fast it is. Generally speaking we will implement a ping command with PHP.

• Platforms
  • Linux,
  • Windows,
  • FreeBSD,
  • Mac OSX,
  • Sun Solaris
• Licenses
  • Freeware

Creating a domain checker

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a PHP script to check whether the actual domain name is available or not.

• Platforms
  • Linux,
  • Windows,
  • FreeBSD,
  • Mac OSX,
  • Sun Solaris
• Licenses
  • Freeware

Using Sockets in PHP

In this tutorial, you will learn how using socket connections in PHP is both easy and practical.

• Platforms
  • Linux,
  • Windows,
  • FreeBSD,
  • Mac OSX,
  • Sun Solaris
• Licenses
  • Freeware

Athena Asset Tracking Software

1st Resource for Free Tracking Software IRM . PHP based, using MySQL backend with cross platform capability. We bring you the resources to get Asset Tracking Done Right. Eliminate the paper trail mess, and move your hardware and software asset tr...

• Platforms
  • Linux
• Licenses
  • Freeware

Asgard Network Monitoring

Network Monitoring, Critical To the Success of Every Enterprise, monitor every sever on your network, even link between nodes in your network. Network Monitoring is a Impressive addition to any enterprises success. Sample code, and network resour...

• Platforms
  • Linux,
  • Windows,
  • FreeBSD,
  • Mac OSX,
  • Sun Solaris
• Licenses
  • Freeware

Web Based FTP with PHP and Sockets

This tutorial takes you through the creating of a web based FTP program using PHP and raw sockets. We do not make use of the PHP FTP api. Instead we build our client from the ground up by implementing the functionality as described in the FTP RFC.

• Platforms
  • Linux,
  • Windows,
  • FreeBSD,
  • Mac OSX,
  • Sun Solaris
• Licenses
  • Other Free / Open Source License

Introduction to PHP Sockets

Learn how to use Sockets to connect to remote computers, or how to listen for connections on your local computer. Many things can be done with sockets

• Platforms
  • Linux
• Licenses
  • Freeware

Using PHP classes to navigate distributed whois databases

Whois services changed radically this year with the introduction of competition at the registrar level in the .com/.net/.org namespace and with it the advent of the SRS (Shared Registry System). Find out how to navigate the new whois in your PHP scripts.

• Platforms
  • Linux
• Licenses
  • Freeware