pear - net_ping - anyone?

Well, been off for a bit doing other things but back with avengence now and looking at pear.

Wonderful thing pear but I am little stuck on the ping stuff.

I do not know if any of you are familar with Matt's traceroute, it is a cool unix app which pings each step of a traceroute, very useful.

That is my ultimate goal if possible.

Put I am stuck just getting a ping thru.

I copied the example right out the pear manual.

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require_once 'Net/Whois.php' ;

$ping = new Net_Ping;
$ping->setArgs(array("count" => 5),
"size" => 32),
"ttl" => 512)
)
);
var_dump($ping->ping("example.com"));
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except I change the example/com to yahoo

But all that happens is everything after the '$ping->' on the setargs line just displays on the browser, like I put an extra ?> in there, which I do not.

My hosting does NOT allow me to use the ping.exe so I can't do that thru a system call.

I get no errors at all, but could that be something they are doing, I will have to check that.

never mind I was doing something stupid!