Re: Connecting to AIM?

A number of people in #php on openprojects.net IRC network have stated their intentions to work on a PHP AIM project. I believe their starting point was porting the corresponding Perl modules to PHP. On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 21:37, Chris Shiflett wrote: > I don't know of any existing code to help you connect with AIM, but if > you're not scared away by having to do some research into the protocol > being used, AIM is just a basic client/server application. Using PHP's > socket functions, you could theoretically write your own AIM client. > Making a stateless Web site interact with a client/server application > like that would be tricky, but it would probably be a fairly simple task > to allow someone to send an AIM message via a Web site. Receiving > messages would require much more creativity. > > If you're just looking for some built-in AIM communication functions of > some sort, I'm not aware of any, so yes, this would be a "from scratch" > effort, as far as I know. > > Chris > > Leif K-Brooks wrote: > > > Is it possible to connect to AIM (Aol Instant Messanger) with php? If > > so, how? Does anyone have a class that does it, or wil I have to > > program it from scratch? Thanks for any pointers! > > > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >