Realtime Server Uptime

Realtime Server Uptime

Written by Tony Bhimani
Originally posted on August 2, 2004
Updated on September 17, 2005

Requirements
*nix based Operating System
Web Server with PHP support
Web Browser that supports JavaScript and DHTML

Download the source code: uptime.zip (includes both the exec & fread versions)

This script shows how to display your server's uptime in a dynamic way. It's not truly realtime, but it's close enough for me.

This is an updated version of the script that was originally released on August 2, 2004. Thanks to Olof Krantz for pointing out the code wasn't W3C compliant and as a result, the script failed in W3C compliant browsers like Mozilla, Firefox, etc.

I also made it so the uptime is statically written in the event that the viewing browser doesn't do JavaScript or DHTML (like Lynx). The old version displayed nothing because I put a non-breaking space between the DIV tags (oops!).

There is also a fread version of this script included in the download. From what I hear, a lot of web hosting companies disable the PHP exec function for security reasons. Hopefully, the fread version will solve this problem for many of you out there that don't have the luxury of a dedicated server.

Server Uptime: 577 days, 1 hours, 5 minutes, 7 seconds

How it's done:

Using PHP, I read the uptime from /proc/uptime and write it to a JavaScript variable. Then I use some JavaScript to increment the number of uptime seconds every second using the JavaScript setTimeout function. I parse the uptime seconds and calculate the number of days, hours, minutes and seconds the server has been up. Then use DHTML to write the uptime to the screen dynamically.

Source Code:

<?php 
// format the uptime in case the browser doesn't support dhtml/javascript
// static uptime string
function format_uptime($seconds) {
  $secs = intval($seconds % 60);
  $mins = intval($seconds / 60 % 60);
  $hours = intval($seconds / 3600 % 24);
  $days = intval($seconds / 86400);
  
  if ($days > 0) {
    $uptimeString .= $days;
    $uptimeString .= (($days == 1) ? " day" : " days");
  }
  if ($hours > 0) {
    $uptimeString .= (($days > 0) ? ", " : "") . $hours;
    $uptimeString .= (($hours == 1) ? " hour" : " hours");
  }
  if ($mins > 0) {
    $uptimeString .= (($days > 0 || $hours > 0) ? ", " : "") . $mins;
    $uptimeString .= (($mins == 1) ? " minute" : " minutes");
  }
  if ($secs > 0) {
    $uptimeString .= (($days > 0 || $hours > 0 || $mins > 0) ? ", " : "") . $secs;
    $uptimeString .= (($secs == 1) ? " second" : " seconds");
  }
  return $uptimeString;
}

// read in the uptime (using exec)
$uptime = exec("cat /proc/uptime");
$uptime = split(" ",$uptime);
$uptimeSecs = $uptime[0];

// get the static uptime
$staticUptime = "Server Uptime: ".format_uptime($uptimeSecs);
?>
<html>
<head>
<script language="javascript">
<!--
var upSeconds=<?php echo $uptimeSecs; ?>;
function doUptime() {
var uptimeString = "Server Uptime: ";
var secs = parseInt(upSeconds % 60);
var mins = parseInt(upSeconds / 60 % 60);
var hours = parseInt(upSeconds / 3600 % 24);
var days = parseInt(upSeconds / 86400);
if (days > 0) {
  uptimeString += days;
  uptimeString += ((days == 1) ? " day" : " days");
}
if (hours > 0) {
  uptimeString += ((days > 0) ? ", " : "") + hours;
  uptimeString += ((hours == 1) ? " hour" : " hours");
}
if (mins > 0) {
  uptimeString += ((days > 0 || hours > 0) ? ", " : "") + mins;
  uptimeString += ((mins == 1) ? " minute" : " minutes");
}
if (secs > 0) {
  uptimeString += ((days > 0 || hours > 0 || mins > 0) ? ", " : "") + secs;
  uptimeString += ((secs == 1) ? " second" : " seconds");
}
var span_el = document.getElementById("uptime");
var replaceWith = document.createTextNode(uptimeString);
span_el.replaceChild(replaceWith, span_el.childNodes[0]);
upSeconds++;
setTimeout("doUptime()",1000);
}
// -->
</script>
</head>
<body onLoad="doUptime();">

<!-- Uses the DIV tag, but SPAN can be used as well -->
<div id="uptime" style="font-weight:bold;"><?php echo $staticUptime; ?></div>

</body>
</html>

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