PHP -> SSH to another machine?

[Xanthis]

I'm building a UI to manage a cluster of servers. The problem is that I have an idea of managing just one machine where the conf are located locally via a path.

However, let's say I need to modify a httpd.conf that resides on another machine.

What I'm trying to acheive is one instance of the PHP script and database installation on one machine and it will connect to other machines and makes modifications to httpd.conf, virtusertable, etc. just fine.

So, I'm not sure how would I make the connection to another machine

Any ideas on going about this?

[piersk]

Read the manual: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.sockets.php

[jmcneese]

try cfengine

[victordb]

could you not also use cURL