Faisal, Do you know that we have PHP users group http://php.jolug.org/
and we have separate mailing list.
On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 11:45 +0200, Al-Faisal El-Dajani wrote:
> Hey PHP gurus,
>
> Here is some PHP code that checks for the status of a person using AIM
> (AOL Instant Messenger)...I can get the general idea of the code, but
> can some php guy explain to me the different parameters and what they
> are for?
> Of speical interest to me is the fsockopen statement. And what does
> the fputs statement return??
> I'm trying to understand it to rewrite it in Tcl :(
>
> <?
> // Connect to AOL server
> $url = @fsockopen("big.oscar.aol.com", 80, &$errno, &$errstr, 3);
>
> // Query the Server
> fputs($url, "GET /spoonosupport?on_url=online&off_url=offline HTTP/1.0\n\n");
>
>
> // See resultant page
> while(!feof($url)){
> $feofi++;
> $page .= fread($url,256);
> if($feofi > 10){
> $page = "offline";
> break;
> }
> }
> fclose($url);
>
> // determine online status
>
> if(strstr($page, "online")){
> echo "the user is online";
> }else{
> echo "the user is offline";
> }
> ?>
>
> thanx
> --
> Al-Faisal El-Dajani
> Tel: +962-7-77 799 781
> P.O Box: 140056
> 11814 Amman, Jordan
>
> May the source be with you
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