README

Telnet PHP BBS Server

This repository cloned from https://github.com/Rotron/telnet-php-bbs-server modified and customized

Usage

1. Download the Script

Ensure you have downloaded the PHP script containing the Telnet BBS server code from this repository. you can edit the .env file to change host and port

git clone https://github.com/ManueldG/telnet-php-bbs-server.git

composer create-project manueldg/server-socket  <folder-name>

2. Config

Open .env file configure database settings and connection settings

DRIVER = "mysql" # select sqlite or mysql

#sqlite
DBASE = "database.sqlite" # database file name sqlite

Mysql
HOSTDB = "localhost" 
PORTDB = "3306"
DBASEDB = "terminal"

USER = "root"
PASS = ""

#connection 
HOST = "0.0.0.0"
PORT = 2324

3. Run the Script

Open a terminal or command prompt, navigate to the directory /src, and run the script using the PHP interpreter:

php index.php

4. Connect to the Server

Once the server is running, clients can connect to it using Telnet. They can do this by opening a terminal or command prompt on their machine and entering the following command:

telnet server_ip_address port_number

Replace server_ip_address with the IP address where your Telnet BBS server is running, and port_number with the port number specified in your script (default script is 2324 for Telnet).

5. Interact with the BBS

For now you can register, log in, call up help, connection information, send read and delete messages and log out

6. Terminate the Server

To end the connection you can use ctrl + x

Customization

it is possible to add new features to the menu

License

This project is under the GPL 3 license