Executing a bat file from php?

[Muk108]

Is there a way to execute or do the same thing as what a bat file does? I would like to use ping in command but am not allowed to use it from where i am accessing the web site. So is there a way to exec cmd from where the server is if its on windows or from the client? Thanks for the help.

[phpman]

might not beable to. try exec("file.bat") but if that doesn't work php has some built in functions that check dns.

look into checkdnsrr() or gethostbyaddr() or gethostbyname(), gethostbynamel()

[Muk108]

will those tell me the latency of the ips?

[phpman]

it will return true if valid and false if nothing or invalid.

[Muk108]

so do you know how i can get the latency of an ip?

and say i want to execute the bat file witha variable? would it look like this? exec("file.bat",$variable);

[phpman]

why do you want the latency?

either it is there or not

[Muk108]

I would like the latency so I can run my script from other places and find the latency of an ip without using command promt. On some computers i go to i cant use command promt.