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.

[Exero]

sweet
i will install it when vB3 Gold is out

[Floris]

Originally Posted by Exero

sweet
i will install it when vB3 Gold is out

The support link in the install file reflects another thread You might want to update that to avoid confusion.

To get more users listed, maybe you could have mirc first list the ops, then the halfops, then the voiced users, and then the rest? This way you can have 4x 254 characters, instead of it all together. At the moment, we don't even list half the users online. Which is a shame. This is partially due to the long length of usernames that is allowed on the channel.

Great hack - it works. Just a shame it doesn't use the config.php prefix_ for tablenames

and as a final integration with vb3's new feature(s); phrases!



## Small tweak for users who want to have the irc server listed as a link so it opens in mirc ! (hopefully this still works in mirc6 - haven't tried it out yet though)

# Open the " irc_loggedin " template and find:
$channel[server]

# Replace with:
<a href="irc://$channel[server]/$channel[handle]">$channel[server]</a>

##

[Velocd]

To get more users listed, maybe you could have mirc first list the ops, then the halfops, then the voiced users, and then the rest? This way you can have 4x 254 characters, instead of it all together.

Ah, I have tried this, and the result is the same happening! Even if you separate each as its own variable, and then make a new variable that is the concatenated form of those other variables, mIRC will still form them all together and give you a "line-too-long" message.

I think the only way around this is using some filesystem functions, and saving the data into a local file (in your mIRC dir) and then reading it from that file. I'll look into this today.

Velocd, could I possibly check my irc settings on my board in your channel, that way I can start the elimination process

Yeah, go ahead. I can help you out some in there if I see you.

[VeoMorphine]

this would be great as an eggdrop. If anyone needs a server, you can use mine. Its a 1000 user network. irc.asylo.com

[Velocd]

IRC Manager has been updated to version 1.1

Please update, as this version is more stable. Details and upgrade instructions are in the first post.

[Osmosis]

I'm getting an Unknown Method when I try to unpack the new zipfile. Is this just me?

[Velocd]

That's odd. I'm not getting any such error, but I'll recreate a new one to see if somehow it got corrupted.

edit:
Zip updated

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by Velocd

That's odd. I'm not getting any such error, but I'll recreate a new one to see if somehow it got corrupted.

edit:
Zip updated

did you think about adding a statics off command ? (i havent checked sicne i first asked about it ) :P

[Velocd]

I see no need for a statistics off command. If you want to add one, which isn't that hard as I explained some posts earlier, feel free ^^;

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by Velocd

I see no need for a statistics off command. If you want to add one, which isn't that hard as I explained some posts earlier, feel free ^^;

if i knew how to i would have coded it my self mike

i think it would be a nice adition just a thought

[Shell Geeks]

Anyone find a way to script this to either read from a eggdrop bot or directly B i t c h X from the the server hosting the forum? not all of us use mIRC

[Allan]

it's compatible with RC3 ?

[M.C.]

if got right, i need to be online in my mIRC client to se statistic? So what the point of that hack if i can go in my mIRC client and see that there?

Sorry, may be misunderstud... and i did everything right but... (i used 2 different clients for that mIRC 6.03 and Neora Trion but nothing happend)...

i think it great hack but i want to be shure that it work even if my client is off (that exactly reason to install that hack couse first i go to my forum and if any nice guys there and in IRC then i go to IRC, and it`ll be usefull for me (and all my users) to see who`s online in IRC without to be online myself...

Maybe any chanse to integrate that hack with any ICR-applets (a lot chat integration aroud for IRC)?

Thanks!

[Shell Geeks]

yes, I agree M.C. It would rock if someone could port this to work with a eggdrop. Heck, I'll even donate the shell account to use to develope it on.

[DaPro]

Awesome hack!!

[high]* DaPro clicks install
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I have one problem, I doesn't grab my channel topic for some strange reason. Is there a size limit I am not meeting, because my topic is pretty lengthy. Here is the example:

http://forums.ani-pro.com/forums