Re: lyntin control

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Bartosz wrote:
> Is there any posibility 2 take contrlol over lyntin when it is run on
> anather machine
>
> ex1:  I start mud sesion with lyntin on computer A then log in into A
> from computer B ant i am taking control over lyntin
>
> ex2: I start lyntin and connect to my mud on comp A then i open my web
> browser and enter my webpage written in php and i type a command in
> specially prepered form which result are sent by php script to lyntin
> and than command is execiuted
>
> is that possible and if so how can I do this?

It's definitely possible--Lyntin textui just uses stdin and stdout.  It's
the same sort of solution that you'd use for any other program that uses
stdout and stdin.

However, there's a better way.  Notadragon wrote an HTTP plugin for Lyntin
(which should be in the Lyntin module registry) that gives Lyntin an HTTP
server that has access to Lyntin's internals.  He used it to write his
automapper which would query the map data and generate this huge map thing
"live".

You could write a plugin that adds a handler to the http plugin that
handles some kind of form post for issuing commands and then executes
those commands and returns all the data its seen from the mud so far (and
whatever other stats you want to see).

Then, you can actually skip the whole PHP thing.

/will


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