Update on the Bot

I successfully got the bot running all on its own. It starts with a web script and you can kill it with a web script. Now there is more that I want to do with this, but this is a start. Now I am going to try to make a android app that can start and stop the script.

Start script:

shell_exec("/usr/bin/php /var/www/bot.php & ");

echo "Bot Started Successfully";

Stop Script: (some code is borrowed from the php manual thanks to Ashraf M Kaabi)

function kill($PID){

if(is_running($PID)){

exec("kill -KILL$PID");

return true;

}else return false;

}

function is_running($PID){

exec("ps $PID", $ProcessState);

return(count($ProcessState) >= 2);

}

$output = shell_exec("ps | grep php | awk '{print $1}'");

if ($output != null) {

kill($output);

echo "Killed process id:/" $output /"";

} else {

echo "Output Null";

}