using telnet in exec

[kelkar_mandar]

i am trying to run telnet from php ---- TRYING
<?php
$a="telnet localhost";
$b=echo ($a);
?>

no i want to pass login and password to this how ?????

please leme know how do i achieve this

mandar

[echion]

Hello,

I don't think that you should do this with exec. Instead I would recommend you to take a look at the way sockets works in PHP.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.sockets.php

Here you will find some examles on how to use sockets, for example making a tcp/ip client.

Good luck