I would imagine that you could use fsockopen to open a socket connection on that port in order to test it.
-Jared -----Original Message----- From: Scott St. John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 8:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] SQL Server test tool Has anyone seen or know if it is possible to use PHP to test if a SQL server is alive on port 1433? I know I could run a query, but was looking for something to actually test on the port. Thanks, -Scott -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php