[JDEV] Jabber integration for community website?

[Jonathan Hirshon]

Bart - my name is Jonathan Hirshon and I am the webmaster for a Jewish 
Temple in Silicon Valley <http://www.templesanjhose.org>.  We are 
currently using a lot of cutting-edge technology on our site (for 
obvious reasons, living in the valley) - streaming A/V, 3D, etc.  We 
currently use phpbb 2.0.3 (we need to upgrade to 2.0.6, I know!) and I 
really want to integrate Jabber IM into our site - ideally, IM tied to 
our MySQL database of forum users at http://forums.templesanjose.org.

I've been seriously considering jumping to Invision, as I found a hack 
that adds Jabber support to that product 
<http://forum.glue.g-blog.net/index.php?act=ST&f=14&t=340&s=8141d18cf59e1added3a55a62b69be98>. 
  I'd prefer to stick with phpbb, but I really need/want that Jabber 
functioinality.  They also support an IM client that ties to the forum 
database, but it's PC only and I need Mac support for my users, so I'm 
really torn here!

Is there any way you can help us install Jabber (we're on a Debian Sarge 
box, dual P-III, 512 MB memory) and that mod for phpbb onto our site (we 
currently use the Zeus webserver - they were a former client of mine and 
I got a free license!).  If so, I will be ETERNALLY grateful - any and 
all help would be seriously appreciated! :)

many thanks in advance for any help you can offer and looking forward to 
hearing back from you - JH

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