RE: [PHP] building a control panel in php

I agree. Unless there isn't a product which matches your needs I personally would consider my time better spent contributing to a project that has only a short distance left to go rather then starting a new project which would take months/years before perfection (if there is such a thing) Onto my opinions of the technical aspects of creating a control panel in php... there are two ideas (that I see looming obvious on the horizon)... Both of these ideas deal with permissions. To be a truly effective 'system control panel' it would be necessary to have root priv's to accomplish tasks... the fact that apache runs as a specific non-root user (and if it doesn't it d#%!#$^mned well should!) is a drawback... Webmin circumvents this project by incorporating its own http/https server which runs on an assigned port (idea 1). Otherwise it may be possible to use a php front-end-script which modifies a text file, mysql, or some other form of database, and either a daemon script running as root or a single pass script running as a cron job... this process would interpret information in the data file and act accordingly on the server. PHP is a wonderful lang. in my experience, and it's becoming more advanced by the second. I don't think the problem would be the lang. itself but the time invested in learning it and implementing it... So I guess it boils down to these questions: 1) do you NEED to do it? 2) do you want to do it? 3) are you willing to invest in yourself to get it done? From my experience creating these types of things tends to be a thankless job right up until the end :) stick in there and it's possible... -----Original Message----- From: Miguel Cruz [mailto:mnc@stoic.net] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 5:49 PM To: Paul ... Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] building a control panel in php On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Paul ... wrote: > just thinking about making a small control panel for my server so i can do > the web hosting related things from the web... would php be a good language > to do this in and if so why?.. what would be the ups and downs? The fastest way would be to download Webmin from here (http://www.webmin.com/), then change all the comments so it says you wrote it. Seriously, you might want to look into that because a lot of people have already put a lot of work into making something fairly comprehensive. miguel -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php