Rudi Ahlers wrote on Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:54:00 +0200: > I can do most of this in PHP, but I do think PHP is a bit slow for this, > being a scripting language, and not a compiled language. It's not slow at all. I have written such an interface 5 or more years ago for our needs and it's split in two parts. I first wrote a lot of small scripts that do only a specific task and are controlled by command-line arguments. This backend was done in Perl, because I felt familiar with it for shell tasks at that time. I could have used PHP or Python (if I knew that better). Then I wrote the frontend for it in PHP. > Ideally I need something which could > interact with the OS layer directly In my eyes this is a bad idea. There is no direct interfacing between the two. The backend takes the commands from a text file that the frontend writes. One could also interface via database. There is no way to smuggle any system commands in because system commands are never carried out directly. Instead of writing it all yourself, have you looked at ISPConfig? I have switched to ISPConfig (2) for our newer virtual machines last year and it's working really well. Although it's not as custom as my own interface I decided to go with that for our reseller customers because it's closer to what other interfaces look/do/provide and it would have needed a lot of extra coding to add this all to my own. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com