Setting up a System w/ Wake-on-LAN and VNC?

andrebsd asks: "I'd like to make myself some sort of webpage where I could startup my system with 'Wake on Lan', and once it is started, use VNC to login. Once I'm done doing what I need the system for I would then like to shut it down again. I'm wondering how one might go about putting something like this together. VNC has various scripts for making that part work, but I haven't seen any scripts that can function as a 'Power on/Power off' button for a webpage. Thanks to anyone with any way of doing this." While there are helpful reference for Wake-on-LAN tools, how would you integrate all of these into a coherent system? How might one keep such a system (relatively) secure?

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Re:Um, too obvious?

[Fizzl]

Yes, I sound like a troll. But just a question about you php coding style. Don't get offended please.

Do you actually use this way of putting php together in production system?
I would prolly rip my hair off if I had to be a maintainer coder for this.

I mean, using printf or echo isn't that hard. I think it would maintain the readability of the code better than switching in and out of the php-parser for every write.