IRC post bot - No eggdrop
 

This is the release version of the irc bot - no eggdrop.
Originally created by me, PowerBlade, and distributed by Dymo.
Installer and admin panel created by Dymo.

If you have an older version of this bot, it's enough to replace the irc.php file located inside the archive.

New in this version:

- Made a debug function.
- Added 2 switches in the irc.php file

To enable the debug mode, simply go into the file irc.php and turn
$debugging = FALSE;
into
$debugging = TRUE;
This will write the debug text into the page after you submitted the post. Beware the page will change quickly to go to your post, so you have to press the STOP button on your browser.
The other switch in irc.php is the
$amountOfLines = 6;
If you ever experience it takes forever (30 seconds) to submit the post, and the bot doesn't join the irc channel, then try put this down by 1 (5). If it's still the same, try 1 more down, until it stops.
At this point it should work.

I will from this version make full support on this script.
If you want to recieve support from me, email me on powerblade@mail.dk with the content of the debug mode.

That's all. Hope you people enjoy it.

PowerBlade
Admin of Gamer-Networks
Feel free to visit our irc channel on irc.d2network.com:6667
#d2network, #wc3network, #gamer-networks

Poll removed, no need for one.

The reason I didn't use the egg-drop method is because I heard of the performance decrease you will suffer UNLESS you have a dedicated server. So will this have performance losses as well unless you have a dedicated server? Because I don't have one..

Oh, and to make sure I'm not totally spilling out random questions, this hack enables your forum home to have a "who's in IRC chat", correct?

hmm....interesting. but what does this do?

What this hack does is connecting to the irc server every time a new post or a reply has been made (configurable) in specific forums
you can choose up to 3 channels different channels to join depending on the forum the post was made in
The bot then connects to irc, joins the channel, tell people in there a new post was made, and quit's again.
When you click the submit button the server must connect, send message, quit to the irc server, before the user can continue to his post.
So this will be a bit longer.
The nice part about eggdrop (if you want to) is the script simply needs to throw the data in the db, and a dedicated bot reads it from time to time. This is much faster than this, but this is possible on non-dedicated server.

btw.. this does not add the "who is in irc chat"

dont add anything - tried it a few times and still nothing shows up.
I have tried it on numerous networks and even on me own network (unreal on Linux) and nothing.

I think it is very annoying that it joins/parts everytime. Why not let it use mIRC dde sessions? This way one could put up an irc client on their dsl/cable/dedicated line and just let it idle and display new stuff.

Can this only be used on certain hosts : as i have tried on a few and yet aint got nothing to show.

The hack is installed correct but when i make new post i see nothing in mirc even though i have entered the correct details in admin cp.

damn :ermm:

I need a new irc who's-chatting hack that gets people using mIRC chatting also :p ...just no eggdrop...but anyway~

Can u add the changes needed for the NEwthread and reply PHP files. I dont want to just overright them on my server because i hacked those files. Please have instructions thanks.