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by phpinfo
Fri Sep 08, 2006 1:31 pm
Forum: Other Topics
Topic: PHP IRC Bot
Replies: 14
Views: 17947

I appreciate the response, De Kus . Your snippet certainly puts Tcl in a good light, as the code is clean and relatively easy to understand. Don't believe just because TCL is diffrent, it's less. I would argue that PHP is more accessible to programmers with previous experience, especially if it is w...
by phpinfo
Wed Sep 06, 2006 9:07 am
Forum: Other Topics
Topic: PHP IRC Bot
Replies: 14
Views: 17947

That will be time when web providers will start banning it :D. Seriously. Web providers don't intent to offer IRC bots in their web hosting service and these would seriously eat up resources (not to mention execution time and memory limits might addionally make problems). Hotnsour requires two thin...
by phpinfo
Mon Sep 04, 2006 8:39 am
Forum: Other Topics
Topic: PHP IRC Bot
Replies: 14
Views: 17947

Good research skills :).

I certainly do prefer PHP over tcl, and for example, something as simple as database integration is considerably more difficult to manage on a tcl platform than a PHP platform.

Also I laughed at your subject line. Very poignant.
by phpinfo
Thu Aug 31, 2006 4:09 pm
Forum: Other Topics
Topic: PHP IRC Bot
Replies: 14
Views: 17947

PHP IRC Bot

Eggdrop has been around for a while and I noticed recently someone came up with a PHP solution, curiously named Hotnsour . It's released under a BSD license so it's open source, and they claim that PHP scripts can be dynamically loaded... sounds pretty awesome considering all the SIGHUPing I've had ...