Posted by Jack Lindamood on 10/16/53 11:32

I want my web server to send me an IM if I'm on AIM whenever someone submits
a "questions request". The reason is I want instant notification if a
question is asked and I am online, but don't want to clutter my mailbox with
hundreds of redundant messages. I've thought of a couple ways I could do
this:

1) I figure out the AIM TCP protocol and write my own, probably very buggy,
implementation of it inside PHP to do it.
2) I install some instant messaging software on the server, like AIM or GAIM
or trillian, and maybe this software has a plug-in capability that allows me
to send messages with it.
3) I use some third party thing written to send AIM messages. This could be
either PHP code I would directly use, or maybe a command prompt script I
could run written in C++ or some other language.

Has anyone tried to do something similar to this before? What's the best
way.

Thanks,

Jack

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