[ILUG] Linux Internet Cafe Software?

[Bryan O'Donoghue]

-----------------Server------DB (LAMP)
|                   |
|                   |
Controller         (n)_random_clients


Diagram should probably look a bit more like that.


Yeah, if the Server is a php box, then the Controller interface can be made in 
a web page.

Then if the communication happens from Apache/PHP - > client via sockets and 
some simple byte oriented or even human readable string orientated protocol, 
and the client app/process watchdog on the (n)_random_client boxen are written 
in C/C++ or PHP, depending on what's appropiate, you should have a fairly quick 
... to turnaround time... to borrow some newspeak from a random marketoid type.

Of course, it might be worth your while to encrypt the protocol transaction, 
with something simple like crypt();.... somebody somewhere would try to spoof 
the protocol transaction I'm sure... saving himself ... 1.65 of interweb charges.

-- 
Bryan O'Donoghue
Embedded Software Engineer

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