Geeklet for monitoring server ping

Posted on Saturday Jan 18, 2014

I've been using Geektool for a while now, it's a super handy way to display useful information on my desktop. One geeklet I've found to be useful displays the status and ping of my VPS.

Geeklet code

Here is the code you need to stick in the command box.

#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
# Array of the servers you want to ping.
$servers = array('mikerogers.io', 'google.com', 'downserver.come');

# PingDomain() from http://stackoverflow.com/a/9843251/445724
function pingDomain($domain){
    $start_time = microtime(true);
    $file      = @fsockopen ($domain, 80, $errno, $errstr, 10);
    $end_time  = microtime(true);

    if ($file){ # We connected ok.
        fclose($file);
        return floor(($end_time - $start_time) * 1000);
    }
    return false;
}

foreach ($servers as $server){
  $pingTime = pingDomain($server);
  if($pingTime){ # it's online
        echo "\033[0;32m".$server." (".$pingTime."ms)\033[0;254;176;19m";
  } else {
        echo "\033[0;31m".$server." (Offline)\033[0;254;176;19m";
  }
    echo "\n";
}
?>

To modify the websites being pinged, just edit the $servers array on line 4.