Minecraft Ping

mcping.php

<?php
function ping($host, $port=25565, $timeout=30) {
    $handle = fsockopen($host, $port, $errno, $errstr, $timeout);
	try {
		fwrite($handle, "\xFE");
		$d = fread($handle, 256);
		if ($d[0] != "\xFF") return false;
		$d = substr($d, 3);
		$d = mb_convert_encoding($d, 'auto', 'UCS-2');
		$d = explode("\xA7", $d);
		fclose($handle);
	} catch(Exception $e) {
		echo 'Caught exception: ',  $e->getMessage(), "\n";
	}
	return array('motd' => $d[0], 'players' => (int)$d[1], 'max_players' => (int)$d[2]);
}

var_dump(ping('s.minecrafter.com'));