README

AtomTerm is a telnet server that deploys a directory as a navigable menu when accessed via telnet clients, similar to a BBS.

Usage

Server

Given a root directory, AtomTerm parses the directory and creates a "web page" with menus and documents, example directory under menu/ folder of this repository looks something like this:

menu/
├─ submenu/
│  ├─ empty.txt
│  ├─ laika.txt
│  ├─ nested_document.txt
│  ├─ meta.json
├─ meta.json
├─ document.txt

Each folder is a menu that contains links to menus and documents under it, meanwhile each *.txt file is a document whose first line is its title.

meta.json files include information about a specific menu, namely, a title and description.

Root directory, host and root are determined by a config.json, whose example can be seen in this repository.

### Client

Any telnet client should be able to connect to a server run by AtomTerm, depending on whether or not it has NAWS support, AtomTerm will also fill up the terminal screen.

Installation

### With Composer

You can require this package using composer

composer require ambertide/atomterm

When this is done, serve.php will be added to your vendor/bin directory (or wherever you put your vendor binaries), and you can execute it:

php vendor/bin/serve.php

This will then the server.

With Docker

You can also run this using the included docker file, however, Docker version of this package will look for your files under the "/static" directory of the docker host, as such you need to include a mount under /static.

Locally

Finally, you can also locally install the repository itself. Although Atomterm does not have external dependencies, it does require a PHP installation with sockets extension enabled and above version 8.3.

git clone https://github.com/ambertide/AtomTerm.git`
cd AtomTerm
composer install
composer dump-autoload
mv config.json.default config.json
composer run serve -- config.json