The gopher protocol, as defined by RFC 1436,
is generally considered the ancestor of the modern HTTP protocol.
However, gopher was also intended to provide references to non-gopher
resources including telnet, wais, nntp, and even http. This extension
adds gopher support to PHP's URL Wrappers,
and provides a helper function gopher_parsedir() to
make sense of gopher formatted directory listings.
Net_Gopher is installed through the usual PECL package installation process.
Prerequisite: PHP 4.3.0.
$ pear install Net_Gopher
Copy the resulting gopher.so to an appropriate location
and add extension=gopher.so to your php.ini
file or load it dynamically in your PHP script using
dl("gopher.so");