jabber

has anyone try to intergrate jabber into there vbulletin board? You can find more information about it at jabber.org, jabber.com, jabbercentral.com

Exactly what element of Jabber are you looking to integrate?

As far as I can tell, there are no web-ports of the Jabber protocall, and creating one would be a job in itself.

there is one out there it is located at http://jabberapplet.sourceforge.net/showme.html

The thing i want to do is make it use vbulletins username and password and other information, like icq number and other things.

I haven't had time to look at the source of the code yet. I am just wondering if anyone else has tried before i start it.

I've found Jabber *highly* unstable and can't use it. :(

That isn't really web based...its a Java Applet, and I don't know the first bit about Java... :)

I suppose if you got your hands on the server data spec, you could have CRON regularly update the user files based on vB's member database, but it'd be awfully tough to try and integrate it straight into MySQL.

yea cyo ive thought of that before, although i thought of it the other way round (to use jabber user information to post vbulletin messages, like a vbulletin transport).

stallion: what do you mean by "web-ports of the Jabber protocall"? i suggest you read up a bit on jabber before deciding how tough it would be :)

shaman: jabber itself is the jabber server which is quite stable, you might have used an early/buggy/crap client.

I've used Jabber for a few weeks in the past, but it just wasn't as far along as I'd liked it to be.

What I mean is there's currently no interface between Jabber and PHP. If you can point one out to me, that'd be great, but I don't think one exists just yet, and that'd be needed in order to integrate it with vBulletin.

there is one AFAIK, but it was abandoned. i see what you mean now about it being hard to do. its more like irc than email.

i would say that the direct interface PHP -> jabber wouldnt really work.

how is it done with AIM and ICQ? (presuming theres some sort of vbulletin integration with these)

ICQ, AIM and Yahoo! all provide various interfaces to their users without using the actual client.

These from forms to email. By submitting a form to the right server it makes it easy to allow integration.

I don't want to intergrate it that far yet. All i want to do is use vbulletin data( username, password, icq #, aolim name )in jabber.

Acous, I spent considerable time with Jabber 1.0, 1.1, and various alphas, and finally gave up. I never did get a server that would live for any amount of time.

fair enuf shaman but ive had a different experience, maybe try the 1.2 release, and ask for help from the jabber dudes if your having trouble.

wluke, is that used for sending from the user or from the board? would sending ur icq password through the vb server not be a problem?

It doesn't require an ICQ password. The message shows up in the ICQ client. It is one way out only.

See http://www.icq.com/panels/tools-catalog.html for more information or look at the vBulletin Code.

ahh, sounds pretty easy. i'd imagine it would take the form of a transport so messages would be from blahblah@webtransport.jabberserver.dom or something

now to find someone with a clue to write it :P

hmm also... what happens when someone tries to add the sender of a web message to their list?