How to wake a PC with a PHP script?

Question

By enabling Wake-on-LAN on my PC, I can remotely power it on.

Suppose I want to send the "magic packet" from a PHP script. How would I do this? Would I need to use the cURL functions?

I don't think so, cURL is for doing HTTP requests, isn't it? Tells us more about that magic packet... — greg0ire, Jul 13 '10 at 21:54

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 13 '10 at 21:59

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You can peek at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/wolviaphp/files/ (uses fsockopen() with 'udp://')

answered Jul 13 '10 at 21:59

Wrikken

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 13 '10 at 21:58

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I have used WMI in the past, for the remote management of machines running windows.

So WMI from MS or http://www.openwbem.org/ (the open standard) might be what you are looking for.

Good luck.

answered Jul 13 '10 at 21:58

Andreas

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