Run a PHP script silently at logon

[neonetman]

I'm wanting to silently call a PHP script on an internal webserver from each PC as it logs on, and then a different script at logoff. I'm wondering if there's a way to call these using GPO's?

 

Can anyone advise?

[ChrisMiles]

Well you can configure a PowerShell logon script and call the website in that:

 

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://www.google.com -UseBasicParsing

 

Or use a command line tool in a similar way.

[Blue_Cookeh]

If the computers have php installed and the install location in the system PATH variable, you can simply run 'php c:\path\to\script.php' in a batch file or whatever. Should be pretty simple to do.

[PyROm]

Another way to fetch a webpage, using vbs (in case you already use vbs login/logoff scripts)

http.open "GET", "http://", FALSE
http.send ""

[ReadTheNetwork]

What is the script doing? Maybe there's another method which doesn't involve calling a php page?

[neonetman]

Uses NTLM authentication to identify the pc name and username and then logs those to a MySQL database to give us a quick overview of PC usage and who's logged in where. Staff can then access a page on our intranet showing a list of free PCs

[PyROm]

You will probably want to also run your script for user logout on computer startup, in case someone hits reset rather than logging out. Maybe even a scheduled ping to catch any that have just been turned off as well.

[ReadTheNetwork]

Would it be easier to do it through Powershell for the login/logout script? It could input the required information and the teaching staff are still able to access this info through a PHP page? Might be more work to write the Powershell script though.

[neonetman]

I've 3 scripts in total - login, logout, and "startup" which adds the PC to the database if it doesn't exist, and clears any remaining logins at startup

[chris_uk]

Why not just have it wget in the background? if you did wget http://servername/computername=%computername%&username=%username%&action=login (or logout)

You will obviously need to amend your php script.

[PyROm]

Windows PC`s dont have wget......

[ReadTheNetwork]

Windows PC`s dont have wget......

 

Not by default

[PyROm]

Just the thought makes my toes cURL