<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.3315.2870" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello all, long time listener, first time caller.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm using Jabber on a server and working on a client in Flash, for the purpose of multi-player game and chat environments. So far Jabber has everything we need, except a way to easily store data about rooms and determine game states. Say three people are playing a game show, all three players send their answers to the server, which then must decide who's the winner and send the relevant data back. Easy.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I was thinking the best and most unintrusive way to do this would be to create a custom namespace for gaming and metadata. This namespace would actually be used to pass the information off to PHP or Perl, which would then execute and write to a temp file or stdout, read back in to jabberd, then sent to the client. For security purposes tags would correspond to specific php scripts explicitly stated in a config file.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The reason behind using PHP or Perl is for ease of use for web developers. I would like to create a bridge from Jabber to these scripting tools to allow fast scripting of simple server-side decision making for multi-player flash games. This also will allow metadata on conference rooms etc. to be stored and retrieved from a database of the developer's choice.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I figured first I'd ask if something like this already exists. I've looked all over, but maybe it's out there, lurking under an acronym i don't know. I'm not looking for a big reply to my big jdev debut. It would be nice to have either a nod that it's a good idea and a couple links to point me in the right direction, or someone to say, 'duh, that's been done before, here's a tarball."</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>To be specific on what I want to make:</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Client sends a SCRIPT tag:</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SCRIPT name="chess"></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    <PARAM name="move">checkmate</PARAM></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></SCRIPT></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>jabberd receives tag, looks at its config file for a match which looks like:</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SCRIPTDEF name="chess"></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    <APPTYPE>php</APPTYPE></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    <FILE>/home/user/chess.php</FILE></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></SCRIPTDEF></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So the script 'chess' is passed the parameter move and executed something like:</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>/usr/bin/php/php -q chess.php move=checkmate</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>PHP works its magic and then the data from the script is sent back to the client as:</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SCRIPT reply="chess"></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    ...php output....</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></SCRIPT></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for any help</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Chris</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>