How to get MAC and IP address of Windows System with PHP

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Friends today I am going to that ‘How to get MAC address and IP address of Windows”. Trick is very simple, you have to run ‘ipconfig/all’ command through ‘System’ programme and then you will capture output and save into variable with ‘ob_get_contents()’ function. It will return you an array and from this array you have to pull out your MAC address by search a word “Physical”. Now with “strpos()” and “substr()” function you will get your required MAC address.

Here is code:-

<?php
ob_start(); // Turn on output buffering
system('ipconfig /all'); //Execute external program to display output
$mycom=ob_get_contents(); // Capture the output into a variable
ob_clean(); // Clean the output buffer

$find_word = "Physical";
$pmac = strpos($mycom, $find_word); // Find the position of Physical text in array
$mac=substr($mycom,($pmac+36),17); // Get Physical Address

echo $mac;
?>

<?php

ob_start(); // Turn on output buffering

system('ipconfig /all'); //Execute external program to display output

$mycom=ob_get_contents(); // Capture the output into a variable

ob_clean(); // Clean the output buffer

$find_word = "Physical";

$pmac = strpos($mycom, $find_word); // Find the position of Physical text in array

$mac=substr($mycom,($pmac+36),17); // Get Physical Address

echo $mac;

Now lets move to our next step. You need IP address of your host. It is very simple function.

<?php
$localIP = getHostByName(getHostName());

echo $localIP;

?>

<?php

$localIP = getHostByName(getHostName());

echo $localIP;

You can write functions for both tricks. You can use these functions anywhere as per your need. Here is function for MAC address:-

<?php
function get_mac(){
ob_start(); // Turn on output buffering
system('ipconfig /all'); //Execute external program to display output
$mycom=ob_get_contents(); // Capture the output into a variable
ob_clean(); // Clean the output buffer

$find_word = "Physical";
$pmac = strpos($mycom, $find_word); // Find the position of Physical text in array
$mac=substr($mycom,($pmac+36),17); // Get Physical Address

return $mac;
}
?>