Pinging in PHP

[PhpIniLen]

I want to know how can I ping some host in PHP

And if host doesnt respond to print "dead"

plz,someone?

[kakki]

i think, that its enough to open a socket to a remote port,

check the documentation on the "socket-create"-command ...

[NogDog]

PEAR has a Net_Ping package you could look at, too.