AIM and PHP

Anon

I currently tried out some service at www.subprofile.com
It creates a profile for you to use on aim. THe makers of this use php to create the dynamic pages with such features as being able to see who has viewed your profile. It logs the screen names of the people that have viewed it. Now i know aim uses %n to publish the screen name of the viewer. How can i emulate this in my own script?

amcgrath

Emulate what? Write a progrma to take in the same type of info (or different, who cares) and instead of this:
<A HREF="http://www.subprofile.com/view.php?name=amcgrath&n=%n&a=b" TARGET="_self">SubProfile: Click to Continue</A>

put this:

<A HREF="path_to_your_program?name=you_aim_name_here&name=%n" TARGET="_self">My profile</A>

Now, $path_to_your_program will have access to who the user is and what user is accessing them... it seems pretty easy to me...

Anon

i know how to log the names of the users that have viewed my info, now ineed to know how to erase duplicate strings in a log.

amcgrath

Easy: read the names into an array ($names) and then $names = array_unique($array);

Anon

I recently did this (in a very simple php script), but i had one problem:

if there is a space in an AIM name, it will only log up to the [first] space. is there some sort of trick to get the full name? it works fine in a browser, but only messes up in AIM (i don't think they convert " " to %20. Here's the url:

<a href="my_server/profile.php?id=%n" target="_self">click me</a>

Here's the code:

<?php
$file = "profile/names.txt";

// open + read
$open = fopen($file, "r+");
$read = fread($open, filesize($file));
fclose($open);

// make sure id exists and is not already logged - case insensitive
if($id && !stristr($read, $id) ){

// add id to list
$open2 = fopen($file, "w+");
$newNames = "$id<br>$read";
fputs($open2, $newNames);
print $newNames;
fclose($open2);
}
else{
// already logged, just print the current list
print $read;
}
?>

amcgrath

Check the encode functions, they sohuld help you with the spaces....

Anon

well, that would work if the page the link was on had php, but this is in the AIM profile, which is just html (i even tried putting php in it but it just showed up in the code as text). any ideas how to get the spaces to become '+' inside the AIM profile?

Anon

do you have to declare %n in the url?

JJ wrote:

I recently did this (in a very simple php script), but i had one problem:

<a href="my_server/profile.php?id=%n" target="_self">click me</a>

Here's the code:

<?php
$file = "profile/names.txt";

// open + read
$open = fopen($file, "r+");
$read = fread($open, filesize($file));
fclose($open);

// make sure id exists and is not already logged - case insensitive
if($id && !stristr($read, $id) ){

// add id to list
$open2 = fopen($file, "w+");
$newNames = "$id$read";
fputs($open2, $newNames);
print $newNames;
fclose($open2);
}
else{
// already logged, just print the current list
print $read;
}
?>

Anon

ok i got it, <a href="http://myserver/profile.php?id=%20%n%20" target="_self">profile</a>

Anon

Yes he does
%n is given a value by Aol Instant Messenger.
%n = screenname

Anon

I'm also having a similar problem. I'm having trouble getting it to recognize duplicated names and I don't know why. Here's my code:

//Screenname Tracker
//Location of screenname list
$s_file = "visitors.dat";

// Reads counter data and separates each
// line into an array
$s_file_line = file($s_file);


// Checks if the name exists, and if so
// does not add it

$ii = count($s_file_line);
for ($i = 0; $i < $ii; $i++) {

	if ($n == $s_file_line[$i] || $n == "") {

		break;

	} else {

		$sf = fopen($s_file, "a");
		fputs($sf, "$n\n");
		fclose($sf);
	}

}

What's wrong here?

Anon

Oh, and to be clear, $n is being read in with profile.php?n=screenname

Anon

THE SOLUTION TO EVERYONE'S PROBLEM:

"blahblah.php?sn=%n&a=b"
run a check to see if a == 'b', and if it does,leave $sn alone.
If it does NOT equal 'b', then you know the $sn has a space. The rest of it is contained in the environment variable SERVER_PROTOCOL, which can be retrieved in PHP using getenv('SERVER_PROTOCOL'). However, there are a few other things in SERVER_PROTOCOL, including the HTTP version number and, more importantly to us, the string '&a=b'. The portion of the screen name right after the space can be found immediately at the beginning of SERVER_PROTOCOL, so a simple split('&', getenv('SERVER_PROTOCOL')) command returns an array with the portion of the screen name after the space as the 0th element. You can reassign $sn in PHP using this:
if($a != 'b')
{
$righthandside = split('&', getenv('SERVER_PROTOCOL'));
$sn = $sn.' '.$righthandside[0];
}
And there you have it! Subprofile.com will no longer own the souls of those who want to program subprofiles with support for spaces! Hurrah!
Anyhoo, see ya later, and good luck!