ircd -> socket.io -> php-based chat

IngwiePhoenix commented 10 years ago

Hey. I am just asking for some advice here:

My site runs an instance of AJAX-Chat and its a dedicated server to which I have root access. So, I want to implement a bridge between the chats:

Users are registered on the site that the chat, in php, mainly runs on.
The chat sends messages thru a websocket to a worker that inserts stuff into mysql database, and reads from there. I can inject code in there - let's just call it the "chatsrv-receive" event.
Some tasks, as for example the site itself and some other server progresses send messages to a redis server, that then notice the destination to be the chat, it also counts as a "chatsrv-receive" event.
In the moment the "chatsrv-receive" event is fired, we also emit a "chatsrv-send" event to dish out a batch of messages, info objects and updates to all connected clients.

My goal: when someone connects to the IRC daemon, it joins the socket.io stream and issues chatsrv-receive when somebody sends a message from their client to the demon and also sends new messages that were written in the chat to the irc clients.

Is this posible with ircd?

Kind regards, Ingwie.

sespindola commented 10 years ago

Hi, You would have to use an irc client library in php to talk to ircd.js, since it doesn't have websockets support.

You could check https://github.com/thedjpetersen/subway for inspiration.

Regards, Sebastian.

Zayelion commented 10 years ago

Is there a technical reason why it doesn't seems like an extremely strange thing not to have considering the project is written in JavaScript.

neiltron commented 10 years ago

Along with Subway, you could also checkout https://github.com/erming/shout for ideas on implementing your web client.

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