Mounting Up - PHP

Linux file structure contains within it a special area called /proc. Now, some believe that there's black magic in that directory. For those who know better than to fear the /proc, there awaits much good magic, in the form of server info. Looking for a way to retrieve real-time server information and display it to users in your Web application? Today's your lucky day! Take a look at the patSysinfo PHP class, which lets you do that and a whole lot more.

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By: icarus, (c) Melonfire

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February 16, 2004

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Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [disk] => /dev/hda3
            [size] => 4.73 GByte
            [used] => 923.00 MByte
            [free] => 3.59 GByte
            [percent] => 21
            [mount] => /
            [type] => ext2
        )
    [1] => Array
        (
            [disk] => /dev/hda2
            [size] => 4.89 GByte
            [used] => 346.95 MByte
            [free] => 4.55 GByte
            [percent] => 7
            [mount] => /mnt/dos
            [type] => vfat
        )
    [2] => Array
        (
            [disk] => /dev/hda4
            [size] => 15.64 MByte
            [used] => 1.79 MByte
            [free] => 13.85 MByte
            [percent] => 12
            [mount] => /mnt/scamp
            [type] => msdos
        )
)

Of course, this isn't very useful by itself - what you really need to do is format it into a tabular representation, like this:

<html> <head> </head> <body> <table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"> <tr> <td>Disk</td> <td>Mount point</td> <td>Type</td> <td>Size</td> <td>Used space</td> <td>Free space</td> <td>Used space %</td> </tr> <?php // include class include("patSysinfo.php"); // instantiate object $sys = new patSysinfo(); // get mounted file systems $mounts = $sys->getMount(); // output mount information foreach($mounts as $m) { echo "<tr>"; echo "<td>" . $m['disk'] . "</td>"; echo "<td>" . $m['mount'] . "</td>"; echo "<td>" . $m['type'] . "</td>"; echo "<td>" . $m['size'] . "</td>"; echo "<td>" . $m['used'] . "</td>"; echo "<td>" . $m['free'] . "</td>"; echo "<td>" . $m['percent'] . " %</td>"; echo "</tr>"; } ? > </body> </html>