Hello?Anyone who would like to write IM extension?

I have an idea. We could write a php IM extension just like PDO.
So, if we turn on
extension = php_im.dll
extension = php_im_gtalk.dll

We could talk to our friends on gtalk by php code something like:

$link = im_gtalk_connect($server, $user, $pass);
// etc...

Certainly if Microsoft support this feature, we could also add
php_im_msn.dll.
Anyone have the power to do that?

I searched over the internet, couldn't find anything about this.

Yarco wrote:
> I have an idea. We could write a php IM extension just like PDO.
> So, if we turn on
> extension = php_im.dll
> extension = php_im_gtalk.dll
>
> We could talk to our friends on gtalk by php code something like:
>
> $link = im_gtalk_connect($server, $user, $pass);
> // etc...
>

Why?

> Certainly if Microsoft support this feature, we could also add
> php_im_msn.dll.
> Anyone have the power to do that?
>
> I searched over the internet, couldn't find anything about this.
>

Probably because PHP wouldn't be the best language for this.

PHP is server side. It communicates with the client via HTML, which is
a stateless "pull" protocol - and not at all suited for such features.

You can install and run PHP on a client machine, but its UI is limited,
even with external libraries.

There are languages much better suited for such applications. C/C++ and
Java both come to mind.

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