IRC Manager for MIRC

Here is a hack spawned off an original idea by Feldon23 for using mIRC sockets to show who is online in your channel.

This hack advances from his in many features, the most obvious being it uses a MySQL table to store the data.

• It supports multiple channels, not just one. This means you can show who is online on your forum home page for not just one channel, but many (there is a major restriction to this though, please refer to the install.html)
• Data is passed through sockets by HTTP POST, not GET, therefore more options are available. For one, this hack will show the topic of your channel.
• The "most users ever in the channel" has a timestamp to go along with it.
• The most innovative feature of this hack is the activity bar. This guages the activity of your channel by counting how many lines are outputted in the channel every X amount of seconds (this value is definable by you; default is 3 minutes). The activity bar allows people not in the IRC channel to see if there is activity going on inside.
• Admin Control Panel integration, for easy adding/deleting/editing channels.

This hack operates in the same as Feldon's, in that you MUST be in mIRC and connected to the channel if you wish for the data to be updated. There is no eggdrop required, and no FTP.

About the only known bug/error I've encountered in this hack is a "socket-in-use" error from mIRC. This can happen if you have a busy chatroom with people changing nicks, or leaving and joining the chatroom constantly. In this case, you will want to make some modifications to the ON-events in the remote script.

For more explanation on features, requirements, and restrictions, please refer to the section in install.html.


Version 1.1 - 1/20/04

• Changed the way data is sent in the remote socket script, to allow more users being. Unfortuantly mIRC sockets aren't very extensive, and through different functions and loops I still wasn't able figure out a way of sending more data. This simply means the max users that will be updated for each channel is around 60 users. (although, I believe it is more than the the 1.0 version)
• Created another socket connection for the topic & activity, which should reduce the number of "socket-in-use" errors.
• Renamed two of the config variables which were somewhat ambigious.

Upgrade 1.1 Instructions:

• Unload your current ircon_rm.txt remote script and ircon_al.txt alias script, and reload the new ones.

Clear your internet cache before downloading.

If you install this hack, please click the install button.

[Oblivion Knight]

If it's not working for you, it could be that the IRC network your channel is on doesn't support such scripts - I know that QuakeNet is one of them. Try and find out by joining the network's support channel..

[j_86]

No, these scripts are not network or channel related. QuakeNet channels DO work with this script.

There error you're receiving must have been a modification to your default mIRC - the commands used are completeley default.

Try reinstall mIRC.

[Oblivion Knight]

An idea; Would it be possible to add the time that the script last submitted channel info to the database? That way an if statement can be added saying if $time > 5 minutes state that the script is offline.

[j_86]

Yes there is.

If you do the PHP edits, I can do the mIRC edits.

What format do you want the date/time in?

[syndicate]

i'll chime in with the

* /if: close bracket not found

error, but only after switching over to jimps' ircon_rm.txt (2.4 KB).

since i never had a topic problem that i'd observed, i switched up to knights' version and the error stopped.

i never was able to find that missing bracket, and i looked a few times.

unfortunately, i never got an update to go through with knight's version either, so i've reverted back to the stock _rm and i'm back in business, albeit not especially reliable.

[Oblivion Knight]

Try this - it's the file I'm using which has the server limitation and the topic fix, and I've had no problems.

[syndicate]

yes, excellent!

things are running quite nicely now, thank you very much.

[Darkus]

Im getting nothing through the forum or the Admin CP with this hack. It shows blank and just says: Most users in the chat was 0 on 1st January 1970 at 12:00 AM.

And I configured both Mirc and my board properly. Whats going on?

[Oblivion Knight]

If you're using the file that I posted, make sure to change all instances of irc.devcore.co.uk with the irc server that your channel is on..

[Darkus]

O_O Thanks.... ??!

Wonder if it works now...

Which it still doesent...