Telnet in PHP

[Anon]

Few questions.
1) How do I use Telnet inside PHP? I have seen two ways: CURL library, or setting up the socket connection manaully, neither are very documented. I would like to go the CURL method, since it appears simpler, but any suggestions would be appreciated
2) How can I configure my application to run indefinately? I want this to be an application specific setting, JUST for this app. It is designed to run on bootup, set up a monitoring telnet connection, and shut down when the telnet connection closes or when the system is shut down. Is this at all possible?

[chaostik]

Hi Dan,

1) I think the CURL library is not intended for interactive use. If you are doing some form of monitoring, I suspect that you need interactivity - not just a single command sent and result recieved. If you could live with periodic log-in and log-out it may work. I'm on unfamiliar teratory here though and am speaking from a 5 minute glance at the CURL section of the PHP manual. YBW.

2) Simply use the function:

void set_time_limit (int seconds);

early on in your program. Passing zero as the argument will result in infinite execution time. This works only if you have safe mode off.

All the best,

Louis

[Anon]

Thanks. Time to go look up the Telnet RPC and various docs and figure it out myself. Im surprised that PHP has no internal Telnet connection functions (my program is loosely based on some perl code, which I noticed had something like a $net::telnet class, but I guess thats perl for ya...)