Code to turn off monitor

[mirainc]

Is there any code i can use in PHP or any language compatable with PHP to make the monitor turn off. you know just like it turns off automatically after its been on 15 mins (or whatever time the user sets it on)


Thanks

[Markus]

You can't control a clients pc using PHP.

The php script will only work on the server it is setup in.

[mirainc]

You can't control a clients pc using PHP.

The php script will only work on the server it is setup in.

Does that mean the PHP script will only work on the PC that has PHP configured? Or current PC..? if yes can i have the codes or maybe is there a javascript of vbscript tat i can use?

Thanks

[Markus]

Does that mean the PHP script will only work on the PC that has PHP configured? Or current PC..? if yes can i have the codes or maybe is there a javascript of vbscript tat i can use?

Thanks

It means it will only run on the server.

[dlite922]

Does that mean the PHP script will only work on the PC that has PHP configured? Or current PC..? if yes can i have the codes or maybe is there a javascript of vbscript tat i can use?

Thanks

You cannot control the client's PC through the browser.

Every code you write the browser reads and implements. The browser, a program, does not, should not, and will not alter anything on the PC.

You must have the client download a program that you write and they must manually execute that file to make it work.

How would you like it if my website erased your files, shut down your computer, and ejected your CD Rom drive without your control?

Think about it for a second. It's just common sense. The internet wouldn't be the internet. .... it would be...mass-remote-access-network...or something.

:)


Dan

[mirainc]

hmm.. ya i guess if wa websit could do that it would be bad.. My teacher is demanding too much i guess.. anyway thanks so much for all the help.. At least now i can tell my teacher why i cannot do it..

Thanks guys! (:

[dlite922]

hmm.. ya i guess if wa websit could do that it would be bad.. My teacher is demanding too much i guess.. anyway thanks so much for all the help.. At least now i can tell my teacher why i cannot do it..

Thanks guys! (:

What kind of teacher do you have!!

[mirainc]

haha.. ya he's weird.. He gave me this for my final year project...

OH.. can i ask 1 more thing? :D

is it possible to turn off the monitor on just the current PC? or PC in a network? Network as in the PCs connected by LAN. Coz my teacher wants a program that will shutdown, hibernate, shutdown hard disks and switch off monitors in the school network. But i really have no idea how to do that using PHP.. I'm new to PHP.. just learning it to do this project.. i managed to do a PC shutdown on my PC but i dunno how to do that on a LAN network..

Anyone can offer some advise?

[mattas]

are you trying to use command prompt or like a batch file or what?


If you are using command prompt use the following for shutting down computers on a network

I'll guide you through step by step...

shutdown::
i l s r g a p h e m t c f d
^^^^^^^^^^^these are the different commands

these are the different commands you can choose from

the text should read as follows below

shutdown -<something> <something> <something>
and so on and so forth

for example if you wanted to shutdown a computer named bhsschoolstore1 (my partner that I work with's machine) you would put the following

shutdown -m //bhsschoolstore1 -s -f -t 999999999


what that would do would give them a message saying their computer will shutdown in 999999999 seconds roughly 116 days or something...actually i'm not really sure if that is seconds or milliseconds..sorry..

if you want an automatic shutdown put the following
shutdown -m //bhsschoolstore1 -s -f -t 0

what that does is shuts down forces all applications to stop running and sets a time limit of 0 milliseconds

if you do shutdown -m //bhsschoolstore1 -s -f -t 30 -c"bite me"

it would show a dialog box stating that it is about to shutdown in 30 seconds and displays the user who iniated it and the comment bite me
email me if you have questions about anything

<Email removed>


lol i think my coworker is mad now btw

[Atli]

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[tharden3]

What kind of teacher do you have!!

yes, I don't think your teacher is very intelligent... why would he/she have you do this? I hope said teacher is not tampering with the school computers? ;)

[Kevinyy]

You cannot control physical aspects of computer hardware using php. and i dont think your teacher requested this of you.
Plus, if you are new to php your teacher surely wouldnt have anything remotely this "advanced".
Also, saying this as a final project would mean youve taken a full quarter/year/semester of the PHP course, you wouldnt be calling yourself "new" to php.

July31 isnt usually school time.

[Atli]

You cannot control physical aspects of computer hardware using php. and i dont think your teacher requested this of you..

You could do it by executing shell commands from PHP, but I wouldn't really consider that PHP code either.

This does sound like an odd school project. Especially for a beginners class on PHP. They usually focus on web development, rather than OS specific stuff like this.

To be honest, this sounds more like the OP is trying to either hack into peoples computers via a website, or an attempt to bring down his schools computer system.
If either are true, know that no browser will allow the first option, and no decently set up LAN would allow for the second.

The method suggested by mattas requires that the target computer allows remote shutdowns, which it won't unless it has been configured to do so by an administrator.

[DaveRandom]

Hi All

The important thing to note here is that PHP is a server-side language, so commands that affect the system are executed on the server, not the client.

Anything you want to automate on the client-side is best done with JavaScript, but even that alone will not do what you are asking. You would need to call a shell command to carry out the required functions.

If the OP is doing this for a legit reason, he should be able to set this up with no problem (the permissions will need changing on the client computer).

This is not the place to discuss the correct shell commands to complete these functions, but anyone trying to do this sort of thing (in particular, put the monitor into standby from the shell) should take a look at NirCmd, a great little command line utility for windows that adds a lot of increased functionallity to Windows commands, without needing to install the PowerShell. It can also send commands to remote machines.

DvR (Chris)

[code green]

The exact same question was asked by the same poster 8 months ago.
How odd that the OP gets the same school project every year
http://bytes.com/topic/php/answers/826928-power-saving

And this
http://bytes.com/topic/php/answers/8...emote-shutdown

And this
http://bytes.com/topic/php/answers/8...g-power-values

Mirainc would not take no for an answer then

[Markus]

@code green
You gotta respect his persistence ;)

[Ciary]

i think it would be highly insecure if something like this would be possible.thnk about what would happen if someone opens a page and suddenly his pc shuts down. also, if it was possible and you would link to it using an ajax request, it wont be your pc that shuts down but the webserver which hosts the ajax.

if this would be possible without asking the user a permission to do it it would be great to hack into and shutdown webservers. i think, if you want to do it, you'll need an activeX control.

[tatzagata]

I have this vbscript code which helps to configure the time(in minutes) to turn off monitor.

Set WSHShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

WSHShell.Run "CMD /c POWERCFG -X monitor-timeout-ac 1"

Set WSHShell = Nothing