I find this very useful. If I am out and about and need to do something, or check something that can only be done on the command line, with this plugin, I can just do it in any web browser; no Putty or other ssh app needed.

The program I found is called PHP Shell, and it is a released under the GPL license. Source code is at http://phpshell.sourceforge.net/.

There are some limitations due to the fact you are not actually in an open session. You can't run anything that requires user input, so you can't edit a file via vi. But it remembers what directory you are in, and you can run scripts that do not need user interaction. You can perform file operations, system commands, get system info, mount/unmount drives, and much more.

This is a mildly modified plugin I packaged for my personal use, but if I see actual interest in this, I will package it up as a PHP plugin for use by the community.

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Nice, that is real handy!

Since I am waiting for the new PHP release before I release the next wiki RC, I have been messing with this PHP shell a bunch.

• I restyled it to look like a terminal window, minus the file menu.
• I relocated the logout button to be the window close button (also you can just type exit).
• I added the "clear" command to wipe the output buffer.
• I added a toggle to turn off waiting for a response (when executing commands or daemons that will take a while to finish, or never finish so the session doesn't lock up waiting for a response)
• eliminated the setting to set columns (this was not needed, the window already stretched to fill the window, so I made the input do the same)

I plan on:

• getting rid of the "execute" button (enter key already does the same thing).
• Probably move the other options into a drop down file menu
• Create a faux VI that you can launch with "vi <file>"(in webpage simple text editor)

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Nice progress. Btw, the latest build has the additional PHP variables you requested.

Is the latest build available to the public yet? Or is it coming down the road?

It already released ! 2.12 has those variables.

didn't even realize it. I assumed I still had the old PHP version. Thanks for the info.

edit: Wow. You guys added a lot of new variables. This will make things much easier.

This is really handy, looking great. Are you releasing it any soon? I want to give it a try

Sure. I am pretty much at at a decent beta level now. I haven't formally packaged it up yet, but I can do that sometime soon. It probably needs some cleaning up on the inside, but I am currently using it.

Just check back sometime in the next week. I should have something up by then.

Beta1 is on its way. I did a lot of work this weekend on this.

I overhauled UI elements. I am doing everything from scratch except base code which I am building upon; so all icons and and graphical elements are being done by hand which takes time. I think it is starting look a bit more polished. I need to pretty up the menus still though.

• I redid some icons and graphical elements and created more.
• I created my own modal dialog library to override the default so that the dialogs would match the theme: alert dialog, warning dialogs, prompt dialogs, confirm dialogs, etc. (this took much longer than I would like to admit, but I learned a lot about javascript and CSS by doing this.)
• Created a CSS driven menu.
• Made colors of the terminal, and title bar configurable.
• When you double click the terminal, it will open a new window with just the terminal output text for easy copy and paste of results.
• other stuff I may have forgotten

I have painfully tested this on most modern browsers: latest firefox, latest chrome, latest safari, and IE8.

I do not promise this will work on older browsers such as IE6, a matter of fact, I can almost guarantee it won't (at least not well)...but really, update your browser already .

I am shooting for the end of the week on this for an Beta release.

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