Have concept - need help with the programming

Still_Learning · Post by **Still_Learning** » 30 Sep 2008, 23:34

I have my telnet BBS setup to work like a DOS prompt so if you want to goto the msg board you type msgboard.com or files.exe, or whatever..

I would like to try and create / emulate a DOS or Unix prompt on a http page.. is this possible?

so say they goto the address bar and type whatever.com

it brings them to

C:\> or such (it will not actully be root access just a pretend one)

screen all blck with white text, able to accept commands from the prompt like dir *.exe or commands with variables.. or is this too compplicated and cant be done? or would it take like 1000 html pages to accomplish? what is the best way to do this? php? thanks

Post by **ayu** » 30 Sep 2008, 23:36

well depends =/

I guess you could do it with flash, and make it send the info with the POST method to the server, and have PHP handle it and execute the commands via system calls, an maybe send the answer back to print on the flash app.

Still_Learning · Post by **Still_Learning** » 01 Oct 2008, 00:06

humm.. I guess flash may work but i do not know that much about programming in it, and heard it is pretty vulnerable.

Do you know of a way other then flash to do it, and it look like a real command prompt? like say the page woint refresh everytime.. it will stay like

c:\> dir
(http file dir listing shows)

c:\>forums.exe

then it goes to the forums or such..

i dunno kind of weird i guess but never have seen it done yet and sounded cool

is there any html code that will run one line at a time .. instead of clearing the page everytime?

Post by **ayu** » 01 Oct 2008, 00:18

hmmm, well I guess you could do it with Java, and might work with Javascript as well. I'm not very high on any of them, so I can't really help you with that.

EDIT: as a side note. I have done exactly what you want to do, in flash once, and it worked quite well =)

It did not interact with the system itself though, and only had a small amount of commands. But it was quite easy to make.

Still_Learning · Post by **Still_Learning** » 01 Oct 2008, 00:21

cats wrote:hmmm, well I guess you could do it with Java, and might work with Javascript as well. I'm not very high on any of them, so I can't really help you with that.

EDIT: as a side note. I have done exactly what you want to do, in flash once, and it worked quite well =)

It did not interact with the system itself though, and only had a small amount of commands. But it was quite easy to make.

ouch.. guess i will need to study more on flash. What did you use macromedia flash or notepad?
example code would be nice also =)
thanks man

Post by **ayu** » 01 Oct 2008, 07:32

itzm3 wrote: ouch.. guess i will need to study more on flash. What did you use macromedia flash or notepad?
example code would be nice also =)
thanks man

Well the code is gone since a long time, but I used Macromedia Flash MX I believe =)

Not much coding there actually ^^ just very basic action script

Post by **DNR** » 01 Oct 2008, 09:23

me thinks you are talking about a shell emulator. You could have a program act as a shell to talk via telnet to the BBS, it would be given limited rights to run on the server.

DNR

Still_Learning · Post by **Still_Learning** » 01 Oct 2008, 22:22

DNR wrote:me thinks you are talking about a shell emulator. You could have a program act as a shell to talk via telnet to the BBS, it would be given limited rights to run on the server.

DNR

I allready have a shell emulator setup on telnet, I would like to have the same on my http site, but at the same time it be secure like the telnet version

also someone suggested Ajax, do you think that would be better then Flash?
which would be the most efficient / secure code to use? thanks

Post by **ayu** » 02 Oct 2008, 00:33

Yeah AJAX would work. But you would have to learn a few scripting languages and stuff to use it I guess.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX

This is what AJAX is made of:

*XHTML and CSS for presentation
*the Document Object Model for dynamic display of and interaction with data
*XML and XSLT for the interchange and manipulation of data, respectively
*the XMLHttpRequest object for asynchronous communication
*JavaScript to bring these technologies together

Post by **floodhound2** » 02 Oct 2008, 06:10

For flash I use CS 3. PM me for more information

Still_Learning · Post by **Still_Learning** » 12 Dec 2008, 21:02

I've got a foundation laid down for this project now and it seems to be working , just need to modify /edit /add some cool stuff

it looks like the bash shell, if anyone is interested PM me and i will link you to the site im working on