PHP and IRC

[w0lverine]

Hi everybody, I have a tricky problem to expose here :
I'm developping a website for an IRC community, and I'm willing to add a special feature to it : allow the users that post a comment to have their IRC nickname printed in the adequate textbox.
The only problem is that I have absolutely no idea on how to do that. I'm used to IRC, having bots etc... but I don't know how to do that.
I read some documentation, and I face the problem that I can't host an eggdrop for my website, so I need to create a connection each time I want to check the nickname. So I'm wondering if this will slow the site a lot or not ?
I also need the command to get the nickname from the IP, heard of /who but it seems limited, so if anyone has ever developped something like that, please share your experience 🙂

Thanks for reading

[w0lverine]

nobody?

[theeper]

Not sure what you are trying to accomplish here, but Sascha Schumann has written a decent IRC gateway library (which requires some other special libraries as well).

Since IRC nicks are only registered when the user logs into an IRC server, I don't understand what you mean by "have their IRC nickname posted in the adequate box".

Check out ...

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.ircg.php

[w0lverine]

just that the irc nickname is written in the <input>

[w0lverine]

Anyone got another idea, i need to do it with sockets