Hello,

I've been toying with writing PHP doors for my board, mainly because I work 
with PHP for web development and having the same programming language for 
both BBS doors and my websites lets me recycle code between the two.

Anyway, I wanted to post some simple test snippets of code I've done that 
work quite well on my Board, whch runs on Slackware 10.2.

First, in scfg here's my Command Line:
php -q /sbbs/php/test1.php %a %1


Here's test1.php:





This is a simple script to return the username and user number, plus a test 
using ANSI.

Here's another PHP script that simply prompts for a name then returns this 
name:




Though STDIN isn't generally used when using PHP for web programming, it 
works similar to the way it works in C, so you can get user information.

This is my first time working with command line PHP as opposed to web 
programming with PHP, and though the coding is pretty much the same, the 
interaction from the user is quite different, for example using STDIN to 
get input instead of an HTML form.

Anyway, I talked to DM and some other guys in IRC about this last week, and 
they said to their knowledge no one had written such doors in PHP for 
Sync, so figured this might be a neat way to do it snce so many folks have 
PHP skills and there's so many great resources for PHP out there.  ALso, it 
shouldn't be too hard to take smaller PHP applications and recode them to 
use a command line interface as opposed to HTML.  

Take care --

Sam


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