PHP Extension

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.

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<?php

include("chilkat.php");

$success = false;

$socket = new CkSocket();

//  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.
$success = $socket->SendWakeOnLan('000102030405',9,'255.255.255.255');
if ($success == false) {
    print $socket->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

print 'Wake-on-LAN packet sent.' . "\n";

?>