Determine in php script if connected to internet?

Question

How can I check if I'm connected to the internet from my PHP script which is running on my dev machine?

I run the script to download a set of files (which may or may not exist) using wget. If I try the download without being connected, wget proceeds to the next one thinking the file is not present.

Answer 1

<?php
function is_connected()
{
    $connected = @fsockopen("www.example.com", 80); 
                                        //website, port  (try 80 or 443)
    if ($connected){
        $is_conn = true; //action when connected
        fclose($connected);
    }else{
        $is_conn = false; //action in connection failure
    }
    return $is_conn;

}
?>

Answer 2

You could ping to a popular site or to the site you're wgetting from (like www.google.nl) then parse the result to see if you can connect to it.

<?php
$ip = '127.0.0.1'; //some ip
exec("ping -n 4 $ip 2>&1", $output, $retval);
if ($retval != 0) { 
echo "no!"; 
} 
else 
{ 
echo "yes!"; }
?>

Answer 3

You can always ping good 'ol trusty google:

$response = null;
system("ping -c 1 google.com", $response);
if($response == 0)
{
    // this means you are connected
}

Answer 4

There are various factors that determine internet connection. The interface state, for example. But, regardles of those, due to the nature of the net, proper configuration does not meen you have a working connection.

So the best way is to try to download a file that you’re certain that exists. If you succeed, you may follow to next steps. If not, retry once and then fail.

Try to pick one at the destination host. If it’s not possible, choose some major website like google or yahoo.

Finally, just try checking the error code returned by wget. I bet those are different for 404-s and timeouts. You can use third parameter in exec call:

string exec ( string $command [, array &$output [, int &$return_var ]] )

Answer 5

Why don't you fetch the return code from wget to determine whether or not the download was successful? The list of possible values can be found at wget exit status.

On the other hand, you could use php's curl functions as well, then you can do all error tracking from within PHP.

Answer 6

Just check the result of wget. A status code of 4 indicates a network problem, a status code of 8 indicates a server error (such as a 404). This only works if you call wget for each file in sequence, rather than once for all the files.

You can also use libcurl with PHP, instead of calling wget. Something like:

foreach (...) {
    $c = curl_init($url);
    $f = fopen($filepath, "w")
    curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_FILE, $f);
    curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
    if (curl_exec($c)) {
        if (curl_getinfo($c, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE) == 200) {
            // success
        } else {
            // 404 or something, delete file
            unlink($filepath);
        }
    } else {
        // network error or server down
        break; // abort
    }
    curl_close($c);
}

Answer 7

Also note that fopen and fsockopen are different. fsockopen opens a socket depending on the protocol prefix. fopen opens a file or something else e.g file over HTTP, or a stream filter or something etc. Ultimately this affects the execution time.

Answer 8

You can use this by adding this inside a class:

private $api_domain  = 'google.com';

private function serverAliveOrNot()
{
    if($pf = @fsockopen($this->api_domain, 443)) {
        fclose($pf);
        $_SESSION['serverAliveOrNot'] = true;
        return true;
    } else {
        $_SESSION['serverAliveOrNot'] = false;
        return false;
    }
}

Answer 9

The accepted answer did not work for me. When the internet was disconnected it threw a php error. So I used it with a little modification which is below:

if(!$sock = @fsockopen('www.google.com', 80))
{
    echo 'Not Connected';
}
else
{
echo 'Connected';
}

Answer 10

/*
 * Usage: is_connected('www.google.com')
 */
function is_connected($addr)
  {
    if (!$socket = @fsockopen($addr, 80, $num, $error, 5)) {
      echo "OFF";
    } else {
      echo "ON";
    }
  }

Answer 11

+1 on Alfred's answer, but I think this is an improved version:

function hasInternet()
{
    $hosts = ['1.1.1.1', '1.0.0.1', '8.8.8.8', '8.8.4.4'];

    foreach ($hosts as $host) {
        if ($connected = @fsockopen($host, 443)) {
            fclose($connected);
            return true;
        }
    }

    return false;
}

My reasons:

• This pings more than 1 server and will only fail if all 4 fails
• If first host works, it will return true immediately
• IP addresses are from CloudFlare and Google DNS which basically controls most of the internet and always online
• 1.1.1.1 is rated the fastest DNS resolver (Source)

Only doubt I have is to use port 443 or 80? Suggestions would be appreciated! :)

Answer 12

This code was failing in laravel 4.2 php framework with an internal server 500 error:

<?php
     function is_connected()
     {
       $connected = @fsockopen("www.some_domain.com", 80); 
        //website, port  (try 80 or 443)
       if ($connected){
          $is_conn = true; //action when connected
          fclose($connected);
       }else{
         $is_conn = false; //action in connection failure
       }
      return $is_conn;
    }
?>

Which I didn't want to stress myself to figure that out, hence I tried this code and it worked for me:

function is_connected()
{
  $connected = fopen("http://www.google.com:80/","r");
  if($connected)
  {
     return true;
  } else {
   return false;
  }

} 

Please note that: This is based upon the assumption that the connection to google.com is less prone to failure.

Answer 13

This function handles what you need

function isConnected()
{
    // use 80 for http or 443 for https protocol
    $connected = @fsockopen("www.example.com", 80);
    if ($connected){
        fclose($connected);
        return true; 
    }
    return false;
}

Answer 14

Very PHP way of doing it is

<?php
switch (connection_status())
{
case CONNECTION_NORMAL:
  $txt = 'Connection is in a normal state';
  break;
case CONNECTION_ABORTED:
  $txt = 'Connection aborted';
  break;
case CONNECTION_TIMEOUT:
  $txt = 'Connection timed out';
  break;
case (CONNECTION_ABORTED & CONNECTION_TIMEOUT):
  $txt = 'Connection aborted and timed out';
  break;
default:
  $txt = 'Unknown';
  break;
}

echo $txt;
?>

https://www.w3schools.com/php/func_misc_connection_status.asp