Hi list, Being lazy I like to combine my online resources onto my desktop in as few applications as possible. I mainly use IRC to involve myself with the various online comunities I'm involved with, with this in mind I had an idea about how to combine two great resources for the framework...
There's the official Jabber chatroom hosted by Zend and the community IRC channel on freenode network. I would like to develop a messaging bridge server between these two resources so that I can use both from my IRC client. Before I start on this as a personal project I'd like to gauge some public opinion on a few things that may influence my design. Would this be desireable by others apart from myself? If so, what would be the design requirements to avoid potential problems from abuse? Would this project be something that Zend would approve of, or be discouraged on the grounds that the Jabber room is an official Zend resource and a bridge may 'pollute' it? Please bear in mind that the community IRC chatroom is rarely off-topic and has very active ops/moderators. There is already IRC-jabber bridge software, some perl scripts and a python gateway, would PHP lend itself well to such a task? Being a seasoned *nix shell scripter I've often thought about porting a few of my scripts to PHP so that others at our company could maintain the scripts. The company will never be without PHP coders but may not always have linux/bsd admins so this project will give me a good feel for what I can and cannot move to PHP for sysadmin. Cheers, Graham
