Hello Bo!

02 Feb 08 13:34, Bo Simonsen wrote to All:

 BS> I were wondering how to create a php webbbs for existing BBS systems.

existing what ? :-)

 BS> What I've thought of is to have a few C programs, which can output 
 BS> messages in plain text. Maybe in XML

yes go on with this please

 BS> I'm not sure, and another program for writing this plaintext format to the 
 BS> messagebase.

we dont need a msgbase at all, what is needed is a design that can be
parsed in php and is fast to render to html on webpages

what the c code does is to be a brigde between binaries pkt and xml

when dir structure is done we end have 

/ root
  / area echomail
    / area php.xml
      msg list
      .. browsers load this in a php code


 BS> If these programs is setuid to the messagebase owner, I don't see any
 BS> problems in this solution.

this will create another problem sooner or later when one wants to have
toss happen on another computer that is not the webserver

no ?

 BS> It colud also be a socket based thing.

i prefer this

 BS> Let me know what you think.

np


 Regards Benny

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