Telnet through PHP

mccrack

Heh Ladies & Gents.

Thanx for taking the time to review my post. Appreciated. I'm a complete n00b to PHP so plz bare with me.
I'm trying to write an Interface that allows users to send mail through a particular SMTP Server . I work in a NOC enviroment and this would make testing for lags a lot simpler.
Essentially the SMTP Server, from address, to address, Subject and msg bodies are all assigned using variables posted to a php script.

Problem now is that i've got the variables but where too now? I know i can use the shell_exec('telnet $SMTP port') but i am going to receive receive prompts back from the SMTP server and based on the response i need to echo back a command.

I've scoured the net without luck for anyone who has had a need for this before.
Any input will be greatly appreciated.

onion2k

[man]fsockopen/man; .. and [man]stream_set_blocking/man probably too.

mccrack

Thanx, i have'nt as yet been able to find a tutorial that explains howto use the fsock function and fread in a manner that a n00b can understand. Not many functional examples. But i shall not give up as i know php to be a powerful tool.

onion2k

Originally posted by mccrack
Thanx, i have'nt as yet been able to find a tutorial that explains howto use the fsock function and fread in a manner that a n00b can understand. Not many functional examples. But i shall not give up as i know php to be a powerful tool.

Had you actually clicked on that fsockopen() link and read the user comments you'd have found several examples of using PHP to create a telnet socket and how to bung some stuff down it. You'll not find a better tutorial than that.