PHP Script control

[Teach]

Hello!

I hope you can help me please

I have a PHP script that connects to IRC to alert us of our support website's status. That's the short story...

I am having to start the script manually with

/usr/bin/php script.php &

which is fine, until it disconnects itself or something bad happens.

I was hoping you could help me to do a couple of things...

1) In my header.php to see if the script is running, if it isn't, start it (otherwise do nothing, which will be the most case)

2) I want to create a page that will show the status of the script, including...

• Yes or No as to whether the script is running
• Button to kill the script "Stop" (if running)
• Button to restart the scrript "Restart" (if running)
• Button to start the script "Start" (if not running)

Any help on this would be much appreciated; it's a Linux dedicated server

Many thanks!

[sneakyimp]

I had a nearly identical request here.

I haven't tried horizon's latest suggestions, but am still trying to solve this one.

[kakki]

first problem: ( shebang issue )
if you want to start the script with:

./script.php &
[code]
you must add this on top of "script.php"
[code]
#!/usr/bin/php

check if running issue:
maybe you can create a file, when the script is started
and delete it afterwards
the control page could check for that file

start-issue:
use

nohup ./script.php &

to start the script

stop-issue:
use

killall -9 script.php

to stop all running "php" tasks

restart:
this checks whether the server is running or not and normally does "stop" and "start"