Re: nocat + admin site

I'm curious ... How did your development venture work?  It's past the 4/July
...  :-)

Also ... I have modified the code of NoCat to handle account expirations,
and then wrote some code for accepting purchases of time via PayPal to
update account expiration times in an LDAP directory.  I've thought about
integrating all of this into the NoCat codebase, however I have wondered
about the overall interest in NoCat and if there was a community that would
use the updates ...

Too many projects ... Not enough time ...  :-)

P.S. Who would want phpNoCat?  An entire rewrite of NoCat in PHP?  :-)


Scott C. Lemon
 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of twistedpickles
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 3:10 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [NoCat] nocat + admin site

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>
>
> On 6/26/07, Scott E. Barasch <[email protected]> wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I'd be interested in the code, as well.
> >
> > I had been running nocat for a while, until it crashed, at which 
> > time I switched to WifiDog.
> >
> > I like the ability of WifiDog to act as a collaboration portal / 
> > hotspot for logged in users.
> >
> > Would it be possible to put in a request for NoCat to have the 
> > following modules to addon to the standard install:
> >
> > * A module to Joomla CMS, so that users could be redirected to a 
> > Joomla site, where they'd sign into Joomla and NoCat via the same 
> > SSO, and then get to use all of the features of a Joomla portal...
> >
> > * Another module, which would work in tandem with the one above to 
> > serve up the NoCat network as a paid hotspot for public access (with 
> > the option of free access to private and admin users), where users 
> > could be charged via paypal or credit card or some other already in 
> > place online payment service for web access at a by minute / hour / day
time frame.
> >
> > * Could we somehow tie in your web administration module into the 
> > Joomla Framework for NoCat, for administering a Joomla / NoCat community
portal?
> >
> > * Could we tie NoCat into LDAP, Active Directory, and possilbty 
> > RADIUS? (In that order?)
> >
> > I am just learning PHP, and I don't know PERL, so I'm afraid I won't 
> > be able to be a big help; however I have a friend who's big into 
> > programming, who may be able to help.
> >
> > I'm on summer break from college for right now, and will have a 
> > couple of hours during each weekend top possibly do some simple PHP, 
> > or C++, or I could ask my friend to help with pother PHP or PERL
stuff...
> >
> > I'd just like some help in putting together a group effort to step 
> > up the functionality of NoCat, and make it something people would 
> > turn to as their first choice for an open source Captive Portal /
Hotspot solution.
> >
> > Please let me know if this is a possible project that could be started.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Scott.
> >


I don't have any intentions to tie the admin site into a payment gateway at
the moment. Nocat can currently connect to LDAP. I'll be experimenting with
LDAP this summer too.

I don't know what joomla is and I have never used wifidog :(

The project will be open source so the features you are interested in others
may also have interests in and can be implemented.

I will probably put the code up near 4/July.

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::twistedPickles:: :


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