This does a little beyond PHP, but I'm looking for a script to use on
a php website that will grab my current away message from either AIM,
IRC, ICQ, Jabber, Yahoo, or MSN; as I use trillian pro I'm on all of
these services constantly, I'm not sure they all have built in away
message support but AIM and IRC definetly do. Anyway, set the php
task either as a cron job and write the message to file, or if it's
fast enough to run when the site is accessed. I'm just wondering if
anyone has any implementation ideas...

John

In article <1886ac96.0409182043.743b04ac@posting.google.com >,
nobodyuknow@post.com (John) wrote:
[color=blue]
> This does a little beyond PHP, but I'm looking for a script to use on
> a php website that will grab my current away message from either AIM,
> IRC, ICQ, Jabber, Yahoo, or MSN; as I use trillian pro I'm on all of
> these services constantly, I'm not sure they all have built in away
> message support but AIM and IRC definetly do. Anyway, set the php
> task either as a cron job and write the message to file, or if it's
> fast enough to run when the site is accessed. I'm just wondering if
> anyone has any implementation ideas...[/color]

First off, do you know how to contact all these services to find out
what your current status is? Is there a published API that will allow
you to do a network connect through a socket to find this information
out. php's strength is doing dynamic web pages. Why do you think it's
the right tool to this task?

Unless you have a php interpeter for the command line, you'll only be
able to use it through the web server. You'll probably be better off
with perl as there are _lots_ of CPAN modules already available to do
all sorts of things. Maybe someone's already written this code for you.

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In article <1886ac96.0409182043.743b04ac@posting.google.com >, John wrote:[color=blue]
> This does a little beyond PHP, but I'm looking for a script to use on
> a php website that will grab my current away message from either AIM,
> IRC, ICQ, Jabber, Yahoo, or MSN; as I use trillian pro I'm on all of
> these services constantly, I'm not sure they all have built in away
> message support but AIM and IRC definetly do. Anyway, set the php
> task either as a cron job and write the message to file, or if it's
> fast enough to run when the site is accessed. I'm just wondering if
> anyone has any implementation ideas...[/color]

Just write a trillian plugin that stores all the messages in a database.
And then let your php script just access that database.

Both parts are quite easy to implement.

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Hello,

On 09/19/2004 01:43 AM, John wrote:[color=blue]
> This does a little beyond PHP, but I'm looking for a script to use on
> a php website that will grab my current away message from either AIM,
> IRC, ICQ, Jabber, Yahoo, or MSN; as I use trillian pro I'm on all of
> these services constantly, I'm not sure they all have built in away
> message support but AIM and IRC definetly do. Anyway, set the php
> task either as a cron job and write the message to file, or if it's
> fast enough to run when the site is accessed. I'm just wondering if
> anyone has any implementation ideas...[/color]

There are a few IM interface classes here that may do what you are
looking for:

http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/class/66.html

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