Is there any way this is possible?

[miles_rich]

Is there anyway that you could use php to connect to a messenger server such as msn and use php to interact with the server?

like this example?

http://ma.tthias.be/openlogin/

how would i go about coding something like this?

[ednark]

yes it can be done.

php has full socket support, and bitwise manipulations, so you just have to know how to connection over an arbitrary socket to a listening server, the what to say to it.

the last part is the thing i don't know about.

search through the archives for 'sockets' here there have been some good stuff on this board about how to use them