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There are not many resources for shell scripting in PHP. Perl has a much longer heritage of being a useful language for administrative tasks. Perl for Systems Administration by David N. Blank-Edelman is a nice text, and the syntax and feature similarity between Perl and PHP make it easy to port the book's Perl examples to PHP.

php|architect, an electronic (and now print as well) periodical, has a good article by Marco Tabini on building interactive terminal-based applications with PHP and the ncurses extension in Volume 1, Issue 12. php|architect is available online at http://www.phparch.com.

Although there is not space to cover it here, PHP-GTK is an interesting project aimed at writing GUI desktop applications in PHP, using the GTK graphics toolkit. Information on PHP-GTK is available at http://gtk.php.net.

A good open-source resource monitoring system is Nagios, available at http://nagios.org. The monitoring script presented in this chapter was inspired by Nagios and designed to allow authoring of all your tests in PHP in an integrated fashion. Also, having your core engine in PHP makes it easy to customize your front end. (Nagios is written in C and is CGI based, making customization difficult.)


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