hi David, You are right i guess you can do the same with xdb_file too. Taking into what you say about transports i guess xdb_file would be more stable in deed. However i recommended xdb_sql cause it's easier IMHO to do a db query in PHP than to parse the user.xml (and i love xdb_sql :-) )
David Sutton writes: > Hi all, > > Technically, you could do the same with xdb_file, just by reading the > users .xml file. I'm a little worried about xdb_sql due to transports > and the like. > > Saying that, the mod_pending server patch is also good, as detailed in > another reply. I've been including that in all the servers i've built > in the past. > > Regards, > > David > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 08:48:34PM -0700, Raditha Dissanayake wrote: >> Hi sebastian >> >> How about using xdb_sql and performaing a select count(*) from spool query >> from your php script to figure out if there are any messages? Since php is >> so powerfull this to me looks the easiest way of doing it. >> >> >> Sebastian Paul Avarvarei writes: >> >> >Hello, >> > >> >Is it possible to check on the server if there are messages waiting for an >> >user, but without actually getting them from the server? >> >I'm trying to write an PHP module which would display in an Web page a >> >notification, in case there are messages waiting for him/her. I don't want >> >to display the actual messages in the Web page, I want them to stay on the >> >server until the user starts a normal Jabber client. >> >Thanks in advance for your help. >> > >> >Best regards, >> >Sebastian >> >_______________________________________________ >> >jdev mailing list >> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev >> >> >> >> -------------------- >> raditha dissanayake >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> jdev mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev > > -- > David Sutton > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------- raditha dissanayake [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
