IRC chat in PHP

[Anon]

i trying to implement IRC chat in PHP
.i tryed to connect to the server using
fsockopen function after connecting i able to register my nick name,connect to a channel but i am not able to send any message to that channel i am getting a message indicating a ping out and it is disconnected.
can anyone help regarding this problem and
also please specify an articles or tutorials regarding IRC implmentation in PHP.

[akuma]

if I'm not mistaken, when the page is reloaded, the socket connection is broken which would cause this problem.

[[deleted]]

maybe you can use pfsockopen.

[Anon]

yes what you need to do is everytime the server sends a ping message you must send back a pong message indicating you are alive, if no pong message is sent it will close your connection, the message you will recieve will look like this ussually

PONG :irc.server.com

then you ussually send back a message liek:

PONG :irc.server.com

use fgets() in a loop to recieve the server messages then explode them and use a couple if's and PONG the server when you get a PING, you'll stay on longer that way, a little irc bot i have written has been connected for 3 days now with no problems all thanks to my tasty PING PONG loop