Re: IRC from PHP - help

You might want to check out PEAR::Net_SmartIRC http://pear.php.net/package/Net_SmartIRC

hello i'm a newcomer to this list, fairly experienced PHP programmer but coding mostly for personal web sites or hobbies. I also run an irc chat network and am curious as to if I can integrate php into it somehow. for example: I want to have a webpage that can present a list of all connected users to my irc network, or maybe a webpage to facilitate nickname registration/activation. my idea is to somehow connect a randomly-nicknamed client to the server like "PHP-19942333" or something, which would execute the commands. I fully understand the irc protocol and have written a working irc client in VB. i don't have experience enough to know if PHP has some sort of "event" mechanism, for example, to be like on ircNamesList($names) { echo $names['1']; } or something. (pseudo-code) does anyone have an idea as to how this stuff could be done? Here's a sort of pseudo-code of what I'd want, PHP-style but obviously most of the functions are fake. // Begin pseudo-code. <?php echo "Activating nickname..."; $php_nickname = "PHPInterface" // or have it generate a random number irc_connect(192.168.1.1,6667,$php_nickname) $nick_command = "REGISTER $_GET['nick'] $_GET['email'] $_GET['pass']"; irc_send_privmsg("NickServ",$nick_command); // some way to hold processing until the response is received... wait_for_response(); // or maybe a while loop, like while $success = "false"... // after response, die exit("Finished"); // parse response on event irc_privmsg($nick,$msg) {

    if ($nick == "NickServ") {
      if ($msg == "Your nickname has been successfully registered.") {
        echo "Registration succeeded!";
      }
      elseif ($msg == "Invalid syntax") {
        echo "Error.";
      }
      irc_quit("PHP Script finished.");
    }

?> obviously I'd also have to dress that page up a lot more, adding HTML code and such. This would also need a lot of error-trapping. Like if IRC couldn't connect for whatever reason, or if NickServ wasn't available, or who knows what. Well that's basically what I'm after. IDEAS??.. Flint -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php