Getting AIM Profiles with PHP

[Helios]

I know a lot of people would like to know how to get AIM profiles and display them and it is possible (AIMFilez.com has something called Profiler that usually works, and profilespy.com used to be a site devoted to it). I think the answer might be in the source code of a chat client called gaim, which is a great alternative to AIM/ICQ/MSN/Y!/IRC, etc. It is written for GTK+2.0 or something like that, but the source is so huge and complicated that I can't find the part that queries profiles myself. If anyone wants to try at it, please let me/us know what you find.

[AstroTeg]

This is not too hard to do. The hard part is just holding a conversation with the AIM servers. Once you do that, you just send "toc_get_info [user name]" if I remember correctly.

You then listen for the response. If the response doesn't have "GOTO_URL" in it, then the user is not online and you can't get the profile. If the user is online, it will have a "GOTO_URL" in the response. You then have to build the link which looks something like:

[url]http://[/url][TOC HOST (IP)]:[TOC PORT]/[GOTO_URL data]

Building this URL took a little work to figure out. Its important that you use exactly same AIM server IP you used to issue the query, otherwise this won't work.

Look for "
function sserver_getuserinfo" in my "aimfunctions.php" file. I've built a socket server to TOC gateway here: http://www.rsbauer.com/webdev.php (scroll to the bottom).