telneting with php

[Anon]

Someone once told me it was possible to telnet within php. Im trying to telnet to something, run a shell command, get the output the command produces, parse it for certain things, then display it to the web.
(it is going to display the uptime)
So is there any function to telnet via php?
Thanx!
🙂
PrognosisX

[dnszero]

I think you can use the curl functions to do this. Check out http://www.php.net/curl_init
I don't know how easy it is as I've never tried it. However, if you only need to perform a specific funtion at each host, you may be better off simply writing a local expect or sh script and then just have php call it with the appropriate args (ie, system("~/bin/myscript.sh $hostname")).