Subj : Re: PHP as alternative devtool
To   : hyjinx
From : deon
Date : Tue Apr 20 2021 15:41:39

  Re: Re: PHP as alternative devtool
  By: hyjinx to paulie420 on Mon Apr 19 2021 07:10 pm

Howdy,

 hy> I don't know of other BBSes using PHP for custom modules. What ones are
 hy> yours? Come to think of it, what is your BBS?

While I mentioned in the early part of this thread that I'm not a Mystic user, 
but a PHP programmer I've re-started a piece of work I started about 2 years 
ago, where I am creating a mailer/tosser in PHP. I've done this for a few 
reasons and I'm chipping
 away at it slowly.

I've got EMSI working (for the old Frontdoor/Portal of Power, etc) mailers - 
where you would have something like TCPser in the middle.

With EMSI working, I got ZModem file transfers working - with Portal of Power 
successfully sending/receiving a mail bundle.

I'm now working on BINKP.

With the old serial port/modem mailers, while it is easy to get them up and 
running on a DOS PC or emulator of some sort, there is a fundamental issue when 














































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































using the internet as a transport with something like TCPser. Because those old 














































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































"slow" transfers sometimes take a time to send or receive, the other end (which 














































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































is normally fast) often times out. So building out Zmodem has enabled me to 
understand how it works, so that I can control timeouts better and hopefully 
get large transfers working firstime (instead of resuming previous failed 
sessions). I know a few folks that are reliving their youth with those old 
programs (as I am), so I'm hoping to have something to help them work better.

Adding binkp to it, means I can have a single mailer to handle both types of 
users - and then because its built on PHP, enable API access to mail, nodelists 














































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































management, etc so that it would be easy to create a frontend (if my 
mailer/tosser wasnt used exclusively as a hub).

I probably have a way to go yet, and I might loose enthusiasm again for a while 














































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































(or not) -  but for now, its occuping my time.

BTW: I remember finding a PHP BBS that somebody started working on (on Github), 














































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































dont recall what it was called, and I dont think it was complete - but might be 














































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































interesting to look at.

....лоеп

.... Don`t force it, get a larger hammer.
--- SBBSecho 3.13-Linux
 * Origin: I'm playing with ANSI+videotex - wanna play too? (1337:2/101)

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