[Wolves] is the lug dead?

[Alan Pope]

On 12/10/05, Stuart Langridge <sil at kryogenix.org> wrote:
> > What I want is one of those "Speak to a Technician" things.
> > For them (the user) it would be a one-2-one screen but my end maybee max three
> > conversations.
> >
> > I'd need it to be my-website-based none of this yahoo, msn stuff (We've banned
> > all of that anyway) there has got to be a Joomla module but I dont know which
> > one to pick.
>
> I have a bit of code which puts a "talk to someone" box on your
> website. It allows as many people as need to to use it,
> simultaneously. What it actually does is lets them talk to you over
> IRC, under the covers; you simply log into a specific IRC server and
> wait for messages, and the system gateways their entries into the web
> form to you on IRC, and then gateways your IRC replies back to the web
> form. You can use Gaim to log into the IRC channel, or any IRC client
> of your choice. The code's not been hugely tested thus far, but i'm
> happy to release if you want to play with it.
>

You could use cgi:irc [1] for this too. I've seen people embed irc
clients on the web via java applets and the like. One of the problems
with those is that they often can't make their way through corporate
proxies, where cgi:irc can.

I run my own cgi:irc on a box at home to allow me to get on IRC from anywhere.

Cheers,
Al.

[1] http://cgiirc.sf.net/