PHP PortPing script – check host connectivity

Here is a script in PHP I wrote to check if a remote host and port are open for you to connect. Do not mistake this as an equivalent to ping command because ping uses ICMP and I used TCP using PHP’s famous fsockopen() function, and a small piece of AJAX.

You can get the latest source code from my GitHub code share page – https://github.com/ninethsense/code-share/

PHP:

function ping($host, $port) {
         $startTime = time();
         if ($fs = fsockopen($host, $port, $errCode, $errStr, 1)) {
             $timeTaken = (time()-$startTime)/1000;
         echo "Reply from $host:$port time={$timeTaken}ms";
             fclose($fs);
         } else {    
             echo "Request timed out.";
         }
         echo "<br>";
     }

JavaScript:

var count = 0;
             var intervalID = setInterval(function PortPing() {
                 var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
                 xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
                     if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) {
                         document.getElementById("console").innerHTML += this.responseText;
                     }
                 };
                 xhttp.open("GET", "PortPing.php?source=self&host=<?=$host?>&port=<?=$port?>", true);
                 xhttp.send();
                 if (++count > <?=$t-1?>) {
                     clearInterval(intervalID);
                 }
             },2);