Mibbit Chat, IRC Bot & SMF forum integration

[Urbanite]

Just following up on a post made on the SMF forum by the good MrHope where he had suggested the means of a Bot with a script that sends ‘chat’ information back to the forum index page, as is done on this forum.

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=245213.40

I would be grateful if he or anyone with the knowledge would respond and perhaps give other SMF users an insight into the method.

TIA



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[patio]

Not sure what it is you need to know...
If it's a SMF plugin or patch i'm sure someone will be along to advise...
Zylstra i believe works the chat server...

[Urbanite]

Thanks for your reply patio.

Essentially what I am asking is how to have the Bot send back users in chat info etc, and how to make this show on the bottom of the forum as is done in this site.

[Computer Hope Admin]

Well the bot I did for the forum is actually a custom bot I wrote. But here is what it is doing to help maybe explain it better.

- On each new user login or logout and/or 10-15 new text lines do the below
- Generate new .js (javascript) file containing the information about who's logged in, what was last said, etc. I do a .js file because I can then just refer to that file from SMF and any other page.

I'm just doing:
<script language="JavaScript" src="http://www.computerhope.com/chat.js"></script>
and the chat.js file just has javascript document writes in it with quotes if any escaped out.

- Once generated FTP the .js file (as well as the chat stats) to the server.

Unfortunately I'm not one to share the hopebot source (who's controlling the above functions) because I don't have the time to handle trying to support those downloading the code.

Hope that helps.

p.s. I'm MrHope on SMF.

[WillyW]

...
I would be grateful if he or anyone with the knowledge would respond and perhaps give other SMF users an insight into the method.
...

If you elect to use an Eggdrop bot - or Windrop -  then there are a LOT of scripts available, that will gather the info for you.

See   http://www.egghelp.org/tcl.htm

However, exactly how to interface it with SMF,  I really don't know.   That might take some experimenting, etc.

The scripts there gather the information, and assemble it in different formats - some even create html pages for you.   Some even do the ftp sending.
You'd have to install the bot first, then experiment with each script with the bot to see what might work for you.

I thought I heard once, somewhere,  that the bot here on Computerhope uses PISG , and I just saw a new script released on the egghelp site that mentions that it outputs PISG.
I have no idea about what it is, nor how to use it though.   

The scripts there that generate HTML, I have played with some.   Just played around though.

I hope this helps.

[Urbanite]

Thanks for the reply and insight MrHope, I respect your wishes of not offering support for your script, we all got a life to live.

If however you were so good as to release the script I'm sure there are others who would be prepared to take up the mantle and it would at least give other SMF users something to go on.

With your permission I could place it on the SMF Forum and state that it’s without support although I think you would be missing out on the credit that you deserve from the community for your contribution.

[Urbanite]

If you elect to use an Eggdrop bot - or Windrop -  then there are a LOT of scripts available, that will gather the info for you.

Thanks for your views WillyW, I think there might be issues with having Bots running on my hosts server and if thats the case what other method is there?

[Computer Hope Admin]

I'll take it into consideration Urbanite. Will have to do some code modifications before I were to release it.

[WillyW]

Thanks for your views WillyW, I think there might be issues with having Bots running on my hosts server

Then I'm a bit confused.... as this whole thread and your request for Hopebot's script,  is about running a bot.

and if thats the case what other method is there?

I don't know.  Sorry.

[Urbanite]

Hi WillyW just to clarify, as 24hour uptime for a Bot is necessary I can place a Bot on one of the work PC’s …and already have, but I also know that Mibbit will provide a Bot for your #room although I'm not sure if it can be configured with the likes of a HopeBot.

I was simply asking the question 

[Computer Hope Admin]

Yeah the Mibbit bots would not have the capabilities that hopebot does since it's actually taking data and moving it to a FTP site.