IRCBrowse - no Eggdrop + no FTP!!

I looked at the "IRCUsers" hack written by eyeball (aka supreemball) using the ftp mirc script coded by Rich@home.nl and I thought wow this is cool. Then I looked at what's involved.

*It modifies global.php, meaning that EVERY PAGE of your forum loads this information even though only index.php uses it.

*It adds 1,150 lines of code to your mIRC.

*Requires 24/7 FTP access


So I thought, why not have vBulletin AND mIRC interface with a PHP file?
Thank you eyeball and Rich for the inspiration to write this!

I don't have a photo/snapshot because the PHP script runs "silent" and how the output looks all depends on your vB template.

The PHP script provides the # of total chatters, the highest # of chatters ever, and a formatted (customizable in the PHP script) comma-delimited list of users in the chat which you can insert anywhere in your templates (an example template under forumhome is provided).

The mIRC script opens a socket to your web server (HTTP) and does an "HTTP GET" to request the ircbrowse.php script. The secret is, it puts all the data in the Query line after the URL and then just ignores the page it gets back from the web server and closes the socket. This is all password-protected.

This is my first hack posted here so please be gentle.

This hack is operating on:

SereneScreen Aquarium Forum
Anime System

[InvictuZ]

Hey Feldon, I've been using this hack and just found a tiny bug. If a (irc) user name consists of the ^ character. Thats where the final character is listed, and no further usernames are listed after that character. It just so happens that one is an op in our channel, and the rest of the users aren't listed after that character in his IRC name.

[Alan Ang]

i see from the instructions:

-------------------------------
If you wish to test the script so far, modify this URL to the correct URL, correct the key and paste it into

your web browser:

This sets the file:
http://www.mywebhost.com/forums/ircu...ob&users=Frank

This reads the file:
http://www.mywebhost.com/forums/ircu...34&action=read
-------------------------------

where is the file "ircusers.php"? how come i dun see it in the zipped installation folder.
can someone enlighten?

[InvictuZ]

I also took notice, that the ^ sign is getting placed in the ircbrowse.txt file. There just not being listed in the block.