PHPfreeChat to StandaloneIRC server?

[plunder]

Hello there,
We have installed PFC and so far so good.
We already have a standalone IRC server running elsewhere and would like to be able to "connect" PFC to it?
Is this possible? We would love to use PFC as a front end to our IRC server from our website.

Thanks in advance,

plunder

[OldWolf]

It's possible, but you'd have to write the code for it. The feature does not yet exist though... there are other chat programs that work for that though

[plunder]

Thanks for the quick reply...
Do you know anyone who has written that code or have any pointers? I would have no idea how to make that happen.
We love this chat interface so much. I have looked at others like mibbit and javairc but none are as clean looking as PFC.
I would really love to connect this to out IRC server. The only help i could find on the subject was on EHOW here:
http://www.ehow.com/how_6599340_change- ... echat.html
Here they talk about "phpFC.conf.php" which i cant find anywhere. Any thoughts or advice would be so appreciated!
Regards,
plunder

[re*s.t.a.r.s.*2]

Hi,

Sorry to get into the way, but I dint know there was a new container for IRC and PHPFREECHAT this doesn't exist in pfc 1.3 I am a bit confused , even the file too be edited is unknown for me.

Could this be a different script based on phpfreechat?
also see the line :

Scroll down to the line that says "ircsrv=irc.phpfreechat.net" and replace it with the address of your server. For example, "ircsrv=irc.myserver.com." Do not use any quotes.

PHPFREECHAT doesn't even have an IRC server working..

I am baffled ..

regards.

[plunder]

Hi there,
This is what confused me too. In fact it was reading this article when searching for "php webchat interface to irc server" that led me to believe
that PFC would do this and as a result to download, install, and set it up. I was then supprised when i couldn't find "phpFC.conf.php" to configure
a connection to our IRC server. Does anyone know more about this as i'm stuck now between a rock and a hard place. I really like PFC a lot and want to use it, and believe it can't be that hard to connect this to our server. Has anyone else here reading this already done this?

plunder

[plunder]

Hiya,

Does noone have any more thoughts on this?

I can't be the only one who wishes to put PFC as a frontend to an IRC server?

plunder

[uovobw]

Hiya,

Does noone have any more thoughts on this?

I can't be the only one who wishes to put PFC as a frontend to an IRC server?

plunder

Of course not, i believe this is the single most important feature this chat is missing. I have thrown together some _horrendous_ code that used ii (http://tools.suckless.org/ii/) to read/write to an irc channel, i got it as far as propagating messages from the chat to the channel but i never got it to send them back to the webchat because i could not understand the complexity of the way the commands are injected in the global state (i tried both with the cache solution and with the mysql frontend (which is horrendous, all it does are endless selects,replace and updates in the same table with names that make almost no sense and without documentation)) then i wrote something on the forum but since nobody seemed interested i dropped everything.

[re*s.t.a.r.s.*2]

Hi,

I know its difficult, had to read the code to understand a little how it works just to get the timeout bug fixed, but even so I have gone so far to find that is the server itself timing people out not the client (AJAX) failing to send command that still alive...

So to be frank an IRC container is very unlikely..

I think the next step would be using PFC with push technology..

regards.

[uovobw]

Hi,

I know its difficult, had to read the code to understand a little how it works just to get the timeout bug fixed, but even so I have gone so far to find that is the server itself timing people out not the client (AJAX) failing to send command that still alive...

So to be frank an IRC container is very unlikely..

I think the next step would be using PFC with push technology..

regards.

that would be true if you had to mantain state and/or clients toward the irc channel. This would mean having one irc client for each user connected to the webchat, which makes it very very difficult.
What i was investigating was some sort of "dumb" trasport: it would create and connect to the irc channel of you choiche a client called "pfc" or whatever, and all webchat messages in irc could appear as:

<pfc> <user1> yadda yadda
<pfc> <user2> indeed

and this part i have working. The other side of it is the one i'm missing: i tried replicating the same behavior, having some sort of "irc" user connected to the webchat that simply copies messages that run on the irc channel, but the only problem i had was deduplication: each message would be repeated on the webchat as many times as the number of users connected to it. Once the deduplication problem is solved, i think that could be workable ( there are a couple more bugs, sometimes ii drops the connection for no apparent reason and other times php gets stuck on the write to iis pipe, but that can be solved with a python irc client running locally exposing one dumb http endpoint or by running ii in a while loop (hacks ahoy!))
Let me know if anyone is interested