PHP-IRC Bot

rallan

I am trying to convert the irc bot from http://www.phpbots.org/ to work on a web server but I can't get it to work(I don't have shell access so I can't use it as php bot.php bot.conf )
It needs a config file specified in it and I tried changing it to always use bot.conf but it just opens and closes without echoing anything :S

dagon

how is a irc bot suppose to work on a webserver?

bradgrafelman

dagon wrote:
how is a irc bot suppose to work on a webserver?

Just like it would any other server, since a "webserver" doesn't really exist (just a normal server that runs some sort of application that serves files across an HTTP(s) connection).

@: It's hard to say, because a) you haven't shown us any code that you tried, and b) you should try setting error_reporting to E_ALL and display_errors to On to ensure that there isn't a parse error (or some other PHP error message) telling you what's wrong.

rallan

No erors when testing with wampserver. It works using the same script from the command line the normal way( all I did was change it to always use bot.conf) but for somereason this Didn't work :S
edit: I also added flush() and obj_flush() in the loops and set it not to stop if the peron who loaded the webpage that the bot runs from stops.

bradgrafelman

Any chance you can attach the code & sample bot.conf file to your next post? If you don't want to reveal the code/.conf file to the world, feel free to send a link to the source code in a PM to me and I'll take a look at it.

dagon

bradgrafelman;10895244 wrote:
Just like it would any other server, since a "webserver" doesn't really exist (just a normal server that runs some sort of application that serves files across an HTTP(s) connection).

an irc-bot sits in and irc channel waiting for key words to respond to, how is that applicable to a web server?

bradgrafelman

dagon wrote:
how is that applicable to a web server?

Well the "web" part of it could be used to execute the PHP process, e.g. you visit a URL and it spawns the PHP process that then stays in memory, constantly executing the same script (e.g. a while() loop that listens for input, responds, then resumes listening). But like I said, a "web server" is just a server running software that serves up webpages; that same server can still execute PHP scripts that have no max execution times and ignore user abort (e.g. you close the browser window on your computer). So take a server that has the ircd server running an IRC server, install Apache, and now you're hosting an IRC server on a "web server."

I assume the script in question utilizes functions such as [man]ignore_user_abort/man, [man]set_time_limit/man, etc. to achieve this.

dagon

so your using a php script as a server deamon, doesn't seem the best language for it.