Irc post Notifier -no eggdrop

this is a hack in progress but i had a few people who saw us testing and after alot of begging i finally caved, (I know I am weak)

So I decided to release the current version, expect a major update on it tommorrow with a few more options.

What this hack does is allow you to specify either which forum or all forums you wish to monitor and either monitor new threads or new replies, and send a notice to an irc channel when a new thread or reply is posted. Without requiring an eggdrop bot, this is 100% php, and works on servers running php in safe mode.



Its fully configurable, a fair amount of options in the admin panel for this, more to come tommorrow



i am attaching the installer on this post and the other two REQUIRED files in the next two posts.

just upload the installer to your admin directory and run install_ircaddon.php and follow the prompts and make the changes to newreply.php, newthread.php, and admin/index.php

easy enough

[JulianD]

Have anyone tested it with Win2K??? I tried to install it locally, and when I press NEXT in the installation screen, it points to /php/php.exe and says: No input file specified... I will try to re download the file.. I'm using the zipped file...

[JulianD]

However, in linux it works... I'm installing it right now.

[JulianD]

Is there any special requirements? It doesn't work on Linux/PHP 4.06.

[Gamingforce]

Nice hack idea. I run an IRC network as well and I was eventually going to code one myself using socket connections or possibly via a C bot that reads from a database and outputs the content into a channel

This hack doesn't work on my server however for some reason. I am running FreeBSD 4.5 with PHP 4.1.2. It stalls after submitting the new thread / reply.

[Demascus]

wow just what ive been waiting 4 thanks man gr8 hack

[Demascus]

i get this error when making a new post

Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated - argument passed by value; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of fsockopen(). If you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file. However, future versions may not support this any longer. in /home/sites/site140/web/newthread.php on line 268

Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated - argument passed by value; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of fsockopen(). If you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file. However, future versions may not support this any longer. in /home/sites/site140/web/newthread.php on line 268

my server
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Server Type
Linux / PHP v4.1.2

MySQL
v3.23.37

[N!ck]

aaaaaaaaaah! i get a timeout (110 seconds) error

[JulianD]

Maybe some PHP/Apache/Linux versions doesn't support this hack... It doesn't work on my server... I don't have timeouts or hang ups, but when I post a post/thread the bot doesn't show up on my channel.

[IRiDiuM]

Getting this to work with an eggdrop would be simple enough; and the eggdrop would be able to cope with the bandwidth hog.

Unfortunately I know that the fsock functions have been killing my host otherwise I would give it a go.

vB forums -> eggdrop -> irc

you just write a TCL script on the eggdrop to listen on a certain port, the forums connect to the eggdrop and send the line of information and the eggdrop sends the information to a channel.

vbulletin.tcl
listen 1337 script vbulletinaccept

proc vbulletinaccept {idx} {
 control $idx vbincoming
}

proc vbincoming {idx args} {
 if {[join $args] != "" } {
   putserv "PRIVMSG #vbchan :$args"
 }
 killdcc $idx
}

[dymo]

its one or all right now, the next release will have upto 5 forums you can monitor and point to different or the same channels to notify

[Demascus]

Originally posted by JulianD
I don't have timeouts or hang ups, but when I post a post/thread the bot doesn't show up on my channel.

thats what happens with me

[Floris]

Originally posted by JakeX
i get this error when making a new post

Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated - argument passed by value; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of fsockopen(). If you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file. However, future versions may not support this any longer. in /home/sites/site140/web/newthread.php on line 268

Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated - argument passed by value; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of fsockopen(). If you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file. However, future versions may not support this any longer. in /home/sites/site140/web/newthread.php on line 268

my server
------------
Server Type
Linux / PHP v4.1.2

MySQL
v3.23.37

The string you found & replaced is the first of two.. around line 309 or so is another one. You should replace that one.

[Demascus]

I don't have timeouts or hang ups, but when I post a post/thread the bot doesn't show up on my channel how do i fix that?

[dymo]

theres seems to major differences between ircd versions and how the process the connections and channel joins, this version works 100% with an unreal ircd server, we are working on a bug fix for few of the other versions of ircd.

the reason you get a delay or lag when posting is the script is attempted to notify it to irc at post time, the next release will no longer have that delay, the irc.php will run silently in the background.

another release change will be the bot staying in the channel where possible, but i think for a bot staying in the channel it would be wiser to use an eggdrop and allow it to pull the last posts from the database instead but we will see what we can do.

if you need a test bed you can connect to irc.gamerscafe.net or irc.d2network.com and test on a channel in there, these are known to work.

if your not running unreal ircd, please let me know what ircd version you are running, and if possible an address so we can test there as well.

d

[sas1911]

Your web host may not allow you to connect to an IRC server. That is the problem I have when I run the script. I can't connect to any irc server I put in. If you run irc.php in your browser, you'll probably get a connection refused error.