Re: PHP telnet server

Luke Slater wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm trying to rewrite an old MUD in PHP; the reasons for this are that > the original is written in C and most files in the codebase run over > 2000 lines with at least 20 of them, which makes it very hard to > change anything. > > Plus, the web interface is also written in C, and needless to say > that's just nasty! > > So I was looking at sockets in PHP, and thinking about the semantics > of it all. > > I was looking at this article: > > > http://devzone.zend.com/article/1086-Writing-Socket-Servers-in-PHP > > And thought 'wow this looks like it might be pretty easy actually!' > > But then I reached the first hurdle point: > > ' > /* Accept incoming requests and handle them as child processes */ > $client = socket_accept($sock); > ' > > Surely the point of a MUD is that the requests are shared? > > I also looked up telnet servers in PHP on google quite extensively, > and there seems to be no real information out there? I would imagine > that I'm looking for the wrong thing, however. > > In short I'm looking for the basic idea on how a MUD server would be > implemented in PHP. > > Thanks in advance for anything, > > Luke Slater > How about AJAX and sessions instead of having TCP sockets? http://xajaxproject.org/ Thank you, Micah Gersten onShore Networks Internal Developer http://www.onshore.com