[JDEV] Presence indicator for web page

[Richard Dobson]

I have created a bot type thing that you just subscribe to and it updates a
database which in turn php scripts use to display the status.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Brown" <michael at aurora.gen.nz>
To: <jdev at jabber.org>
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: [JDEV] Presence indicator for web page


> > I'd like to put a presence indicator on a web page (à la jeremie.com).
> > Preferably this would be achieved by way of a PHP script. What is the
best
> > way to do this? Does anyone here have something like this that they're
> > willing to share? Thanks!
>
> I've been thinking about this, and I think the most efficient way is to
> create an agent that you can subscribe to, that toggles an image file on a
> webserver everytime it gets a presence packet from you.
>
> This means that all you would have to do in any html that you want to
> include a status indicator for, is link to the one image.  This simplifies
> the web pages, and reduces the need for each page that you want to have
your
> status on - all you do is include the image - no additional scripts
> required.  You can also include it is part of your email sig etc.  If you
> want to be "invisible" to all websites, you just log off that agent.
>
> Of course this means you must have access to a Jabber server that is also
> running a webserver I guess...
>
> Has anyone done anything similar?
>
> Michael.
>
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