Wake-on-LAN Remote Wake-Up software library for PHP

ActiveSocket is a Network Communication component for Windows Developers. It runs on any 32 bit and 64 bit Windows Platform, incl. Windows 7, Windows 2008, Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista and Windows XP.
It features many IP protocols, incl.: SSH (Secure Shell), RSH (Remote Shell), HTTP(s), FTP, ICMP Ping, NTP, SNMP v1/v2c (Get,GetNext,Set), SNMP MIB translation, SNMP Trap Sender, SNMP Trap Receiver, Telnet, DNS, TCP, UDP, IP-to-Country, Wake-On-LAN and more. Samples are included many popular development platforms, incl. Visual C# .NET, Visual Basic .NET, ASP .NET, Visual Basic, Visual C/C++, ASP, Java, Javascript, PHP, Borland Delphi, Borland C++ Builder, ColdFusion.

Wake-on-LAN (also called WOL, or WoL) is an Ethernet networking standard based on message broadcast, that allows a workstation or server to be turned on remotely by a 'magic packet' network message.

To do so, Wake on LAN must be supported by the motherboard and needs to be enabled (on most motherboards, it is disabled by default). With Wake-on-LAN, a network card listens for a special packet called "Magic Packet." This Magic Packet is broadcasted on a LAN. When a computer with Wake-on-LAN enabled receives the packet, the network card instructs the computer to power on and boots the machine.

ActiveSocket can be well integrated into PHP environments.

This document describes how ActiveSocket can be integrated into PHP projects.

Step 1: Download and install ActiveSocket

Download ActiveSocket from the ActiveXperts Download Site and start the installation. The installation guides you through the installation process.

Step 2: Create a form

To execute the telnet commands the user is going to give, you need to get the command from the user. We're doing that using a form. In this form we'll work with 4 fields.

  • One field for the command we're going to give (name : command)
  • One field for the location we want to send the command at (name : server)
  • One field for the port we want to send the command at (name : port)
  • And one field for the logfile (name : logfile)

You can make it look like this:

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Create a form with the names listed above. To trigger the commands, we're going to set a variable in the url. In this sample we're using the variable "execute". You can fill in this variable using the action propertie in the <form> tag. 

<form action=index.php?execute=ready>

Full Sample Code

There are WOL samples included with the product. You can also find them on the ActiveXperts FTP site: ftp.activexperts-labs.com/samples/asocket