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How to use SSH in a PHP web page

ActiveSocket provides an easy-to-use development interface to a variety of IP protocols. By using ActiveSocket, you can very easily create or enhance applications with network features.

ActiveSocket features the following: ICMP, TCP, UDP, HTTP and HTTPs with support for proxy servers and secure web sites, DNS, Telnet, NTP time protocol, SSH Secure Shell, RSH remote shell script interface, SNMP (Simple Network Management Protcol), SNMP Traps, SNMP Mib Browser, Sockets, WOL (Wake-On-LAN), IP-to-Country, and more.

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:

PHP

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