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.

[Blue91]

I am getting this error when running the query specified in the Install instructions in MyPHPAdmin...

You have an error in your SQL syntax near '\'\',
`server` varchar(25) NOT NULL default \'\',
`icon` varchar(100) NOT ' at line 3

Any ideas???

[Blue91]

Anyone?? All I did was copy the script in the instructions and paste it to MyPhpAdmin and it gave those errors. Why won't it work for me yet no one else seems to have had this problem?

[Blue91]

nm, got it on my own. was an issue with stupid phpadmin.

However, now it wont update the users online. Not getting any errors in status of mIRC.

It wont show the topic either.

Lastly, how can I "adjust" the "idle, busy, etc" characteristics. My channel doesn't have a lot of people... we are pretty darned busy tonight, and it just shows as "very idle" on the front page.

[j_86]

Originally Posted by Blue91

nm, got it on my own. was an issue with stupid phpadmin.

However, now it wont update the users online. Not getting any errors in status of mIRC.

It wont show the topic either.

Lastly, how can I "adjust" the "idle, busy, etc" characteristics. My channel doesn't have a lot of people... we are pretty darned busy tonight, and it just shows as "very idle" on the front page.

How do I make the stats be the last thing on the Whats Going On?

Thanks

[Blackbeard]

Small bug here.......for some reason it is listing me twice 1st as being @ and 2nd as + is there a fix for this, other wise it works great

[rinkrat]

It took a couple of tries but I finally got this working! Now do I have to load the aliases and the other file every time I start Mirc? Is there some way to have them load automagically?

[j_86]

No, once loaded, they are always loaded

To unload them, use the same commands but swap LOAD with UNLOAD.

[rinkrat]

Awesome! I'll just start Mirc whenever I'm online

Great hack, thanks!

[xparte]

What version of mIRC are you guys using ?

[girlzclan]

Originally Posted by LightBringer

The only problem with this is the # symbol is added in twice.

If you change the handle field in the admincp from say #channelname to just channelname, then the script stops working.

If a user clicks on that link floris, it will take them to ##channelname instead of #channelname.

Any advice aside from hardcoding the channel name in there?

Easier way to do it is to:

Edit the irc_loggedin template and replace the $channel[handle]

with

PHP Code:

<a href="irc://irc.server/channelname">$channel[handle]</a> 


That worked for me ..