[gopher] Gophermap 2 Index PHP script

[James Mills]

I *thought* you were using gopherproxy[1] ? :D

cheers
James

[1] https://github.com/prologic/gopherproxy


James Mills / prologic

E: prologic at shortcircuit.net.au
W: prologic.shortcircuit.net.au

On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 1:22 PM, Ray Lopez <rl at well.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I still use gopher to serve files for my students, even though the
> majority of them don't even know about gopher.  It is a lot easier for
> me to manage the files on my gopher server, and the very clean interface
> makes it pretty easy for the students to find what they need.
>
> Up until recently I was using the floodgap proxy to allow them to access
> my gopher content.  But now I have created a very simple PHP script that
> will read a gophermap and output the content as HTML.  This allows me to
> easily keep and maintain my gopher site, and also allows easy access by
> anyone who does not know about or want to know about gopher.
>
> You can get the script here:
>
> gopher://salsa.net/0/~rlopez/gophermap2index.txt
>
> And you can see it in action by going to:
>
> http://salsa.net/~rlopez
>
> It works best with the Motsognir gopher server, due to the use of the
> %FILES% directive in a Motsognir-friendly gophermap.  But it should work
> with pretty much any gophermap.
>
> To use it you'll need a set of gopher content with a gopher server and
> http/php server pointing at the exact same content.  Simply edit this
> script with your server's base URL, rename it to index.php and place it
> in each directory that has a gophermap file in it.  Now when you point
> your web server at that same directory, it should serve up the gophermap
> contents.
>
> I've tested it as much as I can, but beware that this is a new script.
> It has not been tested in any other environments other than my
> LAMP/Motsognir server.
>
> I hope this is useful to others.  Feedback and code changes are
> welcomed.
>
> RL
>
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