Admin/Mod notifiy to instant messenger

[PeterNRG]

I'm wondering if it would be possible at all to send notifications not only to email addresses, but also to ICQ, MSN or other messengers?

That way, a moderator or admin can take action (moderate) when they get instantly notified by their favorite messenger, when a new post/thread is made, or a specific user shows up.

I guess a special MSN/ICQ/... user needs to be created, in order for the forum to send out IM messages.

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This is a good idea mate alot of my mods use ICQ more than their email

I'll look into it and see wot i can do

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[Cyricx]

aye awesome idea :)

[filburt1]

MSN can already supposedly do something similar to this, but I've never seen any PHP implementation of the AIM protocol.

[PeterNRG]

Today at 03:12 AM filburt1 said this in Post #4 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=385376#post385376)
MSN can already supposedly do something similar to this, but I've never seen any PHP implementation of the AIM protocol. There's always an individual who comes up with it first :) So here's your chance!
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I now have a ICQ version of report Post working on my forum.

The user selects report post, from which there now shown a dropdown menu where they can select either "send via ICQ" or "send via email" once the user makes there selection for ICQ it opens a new window with a dropdown menu of users to send the report to (You can only send msg to one person at a time not multiple) once the user selects the person they are sending msg to, they are then redirected to a "reason" box, the user inputs the reason why there reporting the post and clicks "send Message".

The Admin/Mod then recieve the message when they join ICQ. the message is sent in this format

Your Forum Title(Reported Post)
Subject: http://site.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=xx has been reported by {user reporting}
Reason: the reason goes here.

I am having a small problem tho which if anyone can help with ill be grateful. basically on the page where the user selects who to send the icq to i tried to get the script to automatically fill in all the moderators using a database query, i got this to work but the dropdown menu only showed One moderator not all moderators.

the option field looks like this
<option value"$icqnumber">$username</option>
$icq number is extracted from $bbuserinfo[icq] field

Any help appreciated.
please note i am using templates for this hack also rather than one indiviual scipt

If you would like the code at the moment where you have to manually add your mods/admin icq numbers and usernames feel free to pm me or post here and ill release it in beta forum

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