PHP

Send a Wake-on-LAN Magic Packet

Demonstrates Socket.SendWakeOnLan, which sends a Wake-on-LAN magic packet for a MAC address to a UDP broadcast address and port.

Background. The MAC address is six bytes written as hexadecimal. Wake-on-LAN wakes a powered-down machine on the local network that has the feature enabled.

Chilkat PHP Downloads

Download Chilkat for PHP

Chilkat2 PHP

<?php

use Chilkat2\Socket;

$socket = new Socket();

// Send a Wake-on-LAN magic packet to wake a machine by its MAC address.  The MAC is six bytes
// written as hexadecimal, and the packet is sent to the UDP broadcast address and port.
try {
    $socket->SendWakeOnLan('000102030405', 9, '255.255.255.255');
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
    exit;
}

echo "Wake-on-LAN packet sent.\n";