NYCPHP Meetup

[Andrew Yochum]

On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 12:17:51PM -0500, aaron wrote:
> I have a php script that  I'd like to use to open a telnet connection, 
> send a few telnet commands, then exit. I haven't done this type of 
> connection before, and not sure what set of php functions to start with. 
> Any suggestions?

If you have SSH access to the remote machine, you might Sara Golemon's
SSH2 PECL extension:
    http://pecl.php.net/package/ssh2

It's not telnet exactly but will help you achieve exactly what you need.
And if you're crossing a public network, it's best to use SSH in place
of telnet anyway.  Plaintext protocols such as telnet & ftp are insecure
by nature.

HTH,
Andrew
-- 
Andrew Yochum
Plexpod
andrew at plexpod.com
718-360-0879