I want to make a GUI for automation testing tool, currently that was in CLI and we need to convert it ig GUI, now the problem i am facing is that I have selected HTML,CSS,JS for front end and PHP for backend, so can any 1 of u suggest me how to login to the server, which is having some IP? or simply how to login to linux server using PHP code?

I want to make a GUI for automation testing tool, currently that was in CLI and we need to convert it ig GUI, now the problem i am facing is that I have selected HTML,CSS,JS for front end and PHP for backend, so can any 1 of u suggest me how to login to the server, which is having some IP? or simply how to login to linux server using PHP code?

• javascript
• php
• html
• linux
• login-page

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• 1 any 1 of u: Please use English! – jpaugh Commented Apr 16, 2015 at 21:55

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You can open a connection via SSH with the "Secure Shell2" PHP module.

https://php/manual/en/book.ssh2.php

// open a SSH connection (hostname = IP or network name of the remote puter)

$connection = ssh2_connect('hostname', 22);

// authenticate by login / password

ssh2_auth_password($connection, 'username', 'password');

and then execute a mand :

// execute a shell mand on the remote puter (eg. 'php -v' to know the PHP version)

$stream = ssh2_exec($connection, 'php -v');

// read the result from the remote puter to your local puter

stream_set_blocking($stream, true);

$stream_out = ssh2_fetch_stream($stream, SSH2_STREAM_STDIO);

// print the result in your local puter

echo stream_get_contents($stream_out);

The libssh2 extension is a PITA. Hard to install and hard to use. My remendation. Use phpseclib. Example:

<?php
include('Net/SSH2.php');

$ssh = new Net_SSH2('hostname', 22);
if (!$ssh->login('username', 'password')) {
    exit('Login Failed');
}

echo $ssh->exec('php -v');
?>

With PHP you can't log into a Server as you only run a php-script but you're not acctually a user that does stuff. That said there is a user set up for php-scripts. Everytime you send a request to get a php-file that user runs the script and sends beck the result.

If you want to output data from your server you have to have these data accessible via php. Than you can open those PHP-files as part of a website.

You don't login to the server from PHP, however if your web server is running on the same server you are trying to control, you can easily execute shell mands and scripts from PHP. shell_exec

Be careful of the the permission you are granting your mands and scripts.

How to execute "service bind9 restart" use phpseclib .. the code is:

<?php include('Net/SSH2.php'); 
 $ssh = new Net_SSH2('xxxx');
 if (!$ssh->login('xx', 'xxx')) {
 exit('Login Failed');
 }
 echo $ssh->exec('service bind9 restart');
?>

Output : bind9: unrecognized service

thanks