How can I check with php how to get the bandwidth and hard drive space of a server, been wanting to do this for some time with a test project.

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VillageIdiot can have my babbies ;d

You'll have to do this via SNMP protocol. So you have to compile PHP with SNMP libraries so you can make use of SNMPget, SNMP walk functions...

Theres no way via the php core?

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VillageIdiot can have my babbies ;d

No, PHP doesn't provide libraries for SNMP.

So when you compile PHP you'll have to do something like this:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/php/ with-snmp=/usr/local/snmp/

I can tell you exactly how to do it if you want.

I've done it a million times....

PHP does however come with the SNMP extension by default, but not enabled by default. But to check the space of the server you could always try and use disk_free_space or something if you aren't in the floppy safe_mode ;)

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What does it mean when you say it comes with SNMP extension by default?

PHP has an SNMP extension included by default, hence why the --with-snmp configure switch works ;)

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ohhhh, gotchya.

So that's the same thing with mysql too right?

If you don't compile PHP with mysql, the mysql functions won't work so you have to point it to a mysql directory during compilation right?

--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql/


Also, I've always wanted to know this, is there any different between these two?


--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql

and

--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql/



BTW: check your PM....

Yep, you have to configure php with directives thats not enabled by default, for example in PHP4 MySQL was built staticlly by default, meaning that doing a "configure" (or on non-Windows: ./configure) would result in MySQL was enabled and set staticlly by default.

Enabled by default in the php work means, that doing a "configure" will result in it being enabled and compiled when running "make" (or nmake on Windows).

As for the last one, there shouldn't be any difference, since they both point to a directory. but there might be some weird issue since Unix would handle it "poorly". But I can't tell for sure, I only do PHP compilations on Windows ;)

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disk_free_space not of any use?

For more in depth HD monitoring on the Penguin, you could do this (assuming PHP isn't in safe mode):
However that will just dump out the raw output from the df command.
somthing like thus:
(note, i trimmed the above down for brevity, depending on your system setup you may get more as i did :))
For bandwidth, you would have to install a program like bmon, MRTG etc

For Redmond, i have absolutely no clue what so ever

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mysql> SELECT * FROM `users` WHERE `users`.`clue` > 0;
Empty set (0.00 sec)