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.

[Blackbeard]

Thank you for all the work put into this hack, we have been wanting this on our forum for a while now. Works great

http://learnall-forum.com/forums/index.php?

[Maikeru]

Great work, Velo. I'm definately using this hack on my forum. Hope to see some more good hacks from you

[Maikeru]

i figured out most of what I just editted out..but this is what appears when I have everything managed:

Most users in the chat was 0 on 12-31-1969 at 07:00 PM.
Topic:

What can I do to fix that?

[BaCaRdi]

You can also use thales mysql to ircd gateway, it works great and it's dynamic, also dont need something to join server to check. I will post a sampe page when we convert back to Vbull from ipb There release has very few examples to work with but you can request our source and modify it for your use, for free of course

-BaC

[Intex]

Great hack Velocid - but I'm having a connection problem by the looks of things. I'm getting the following errors in mIRC status window:

* /sockwrite: 'vbmisc' not connected (line 18, ircon_rm.txt)
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* /sockwrite: 'vbusers' not connected (line 2, ircon_rm.txt)

I believe (after looking at the threads already posted here) this means that this is due to the fact that a connection can't actually be made to the webserver.

Can you confirm the following:

• Does this work if you're port forwarding on your firewall to another host on your network? My webserver is not on a PC directly connected to the Internet
• Does it work if mIRC is on the PC where the webserver is? mIRC attaches to the network with no problems and I can do everything IRC related as expected
• I turned the board off in the AdminCP whilst testing this. Would this be a possible reason why it's not working?

Thx.

[xparte]

Hi !

I've installed everything in and it everything seems ok except I run into a problem loading the ircon_al.txt file.

I get this error in mirc:

* /sockopen: insufficient parameters (line 17, ircon_al.txt)

Opening up ircon_al.txt shows line 17 as:

sockopen vbmisc %vbserver 80

This is my config:

/ircrefresh {
  ; Configuration ;

  %vbserver    = sydlaw.com.au
  %vbfilepath  = /forums/irconline.php
  %irckey      = 54321
  %ircchan     = #xparte
  %ircwait     = 60

I'm on mirc 6.14 VB3.

I've gone through this whole topic but no one seems to have had this problem. Does anyone know what could be wrong ?


Thanks for your help.

[HakkieDEV]

Awesome, installed this hack and works perfect! Love ya!

[HakkieDEV]

How do I edit the script btw so it also shows the users with a "!".

It shows all ops, halfops and voiced (@,%,+), but no the users with !.

Please tell me how to do that.

[OCH-Stan]

wow! I like how this look, any future version with eggdrops??

[HakkieDEV]

Its not working with the newest version of mIRC.

It doesn't recognise any of the commands (ircrefresh/topicrefresh/etc).

What should I do to make it work>