Getting MAC Address of the host using PHP

get_mac.php

function getMAC()
{
 /*
  * Getting MAC Address of the host using PHP
  * Md. Nazmul Basher
  * Modified by Junaid Qadir Baloch
  * Now this function gets all the MAC addresses attached to the system
  * on which this function is called in an array and returns.

  */

 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 (erase) the output buffer
 foreach(preg_split("/(\r?\n)/", $mycom) as $line){
  if(strstr($line, 'Physical Address'))
  {
   $Mac[]= substr($line,39,18);
  }
 }
 return $Mac;
}

Hi,

I tested this function here on my windows system with german locale active and the script does not working anymore.

The problem is the translation for "Physical Address" what in german is "Physikalische Adresse".

I forked this repository and correct the function for all locale windows versions and tested it on an english and german installation. For that I recreated the preg_match pattern to an intl version.

Hope it helps

regards
j0inty

This code will give us the server mac address not client mac