I am fairly new to php and am currently working on a website for my university. What I am trying to do is make a log in page that allows a user to establish a connection to a remote SSH server and then run linux scripts all from wihtin php. So far, I've found this code that -- I guess is supposed to allow a user to log in. I've tried running the code, but it doesn't seem to work.
Edit: When I run the code, the page simply says "function ssh2_connect doesn't exist."
<?php
if (!function_exists("ssh2_connect")) die("function ssh2_connect doesn't exist");
// log in at server1.example.com on port 22
if(!($con = ssh2_connect("server1.example.com", 22))) {
echo "fail: unable to establish connection\n"; }
else {
// try to authenticate with username and password
if(!ssh2_auth_password($con, "username", "password")) {
echo "fail: unable to authenticate\n";
}
else {
// allright, we're in!
echo "okay: logged in...\n";
// execute a command
if (!($stream = ssh2_exec($con, "ls -al" ))) {
echo "fail: unable to execute command\n";
}
else {
// collect returning data from command
stream_set_blocking($stream, true);
$data = "";
while ($buf = fread($stream,4096)) {
$data .= $buf;
}
fclose($stream);
}
}
}
?>