Hi,
I like to have a "there are x users on our IRC server" message on our
website.
Maybe there are others out there who might want to do the same, that's why
I'm writing this mail.
Till now I used php:
$sock = fsockopen("localhost", 6667);
fputs($sock, "nick IdleTest\r");
fputs($sock, "user idle . . :Idle-Test\r");
$result = fgets($sock, 4096);
$result = fgets($sock, 4096);
$result = fgets($sock, 4096);
$result = fgets($sock, 4096);
$result = fgets($sock, 4096);
$result = fgets($sock, 4096);
$n = sscanf($result, ":irc.server.url %d IdleTest :There are %d users %s",
&$comid, &$users, &$rest);
fputs($sock, "quit\r");
fclose($sock);
$users--; //subtract the telnet connection
echo "There are $users users on our IRC server";
It works but I found this solution unsatisfying so I changed the ngircd code
and recompiled.
I added/changed after line 365
BOOLEAN timeout;
int alte_anz = -1;
int anz_user = 0;
FILE * fp_users;
start = time( NULL );
while(( ! NGIRCd_SignalQuit ) && ( ! NGIRCd_SignalRestart ))
{
anz_user = Client_UserCount();
if(anz_user != alte_anz)
{
fp_users = fopen("/srv/www/htdocs/chat/chat.users",
"w");
if(fp_users != NULL)
{
fprintf(fp_users, "%i\n", anz_user);
fclose(fp_users);
}
alte_anz = anz_user;
}
timeout = TRUE;
...
in conn.c after Check_Connections( ); so it will constantly write the number
of users on the server to a file (in this case a file in the web directory)
when the number changes.
All the changes are between the timeout variable so you can easily find
them.
If you need more flexibility you could make the filename (and the whole
piece of code) an additional option (I found no fitting free character for
it (maybe -u filename?) and don't need the flexibility). BTW: Why is
there --version and --help but not -v and -h?
Hope you like it/can need it too.
Yours, Jens
