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| said by JAAulde  :IRC is your answer, and there are lots of web based clients for it. Read up on it, you'll like it. Perhaps I shouldn't have been so hasty as to say that IRC couldn't work, because of the integration issues (I'd want chatters to have the same screen names as they would have on the associated forum).
Originally, I dismissed IRC because I thought it required people to install some sort of client software. You know, like the AIM program, only they would then also have to input all the settings and get them just right. But then...
I've learned that there's such a thing as a Flash based IRC client. This is a good thing because I can't expect most people to be able to install an IRC client of their own and then use it. I'm talking about users who don't even know the difference between a static and dynamic IP.
I guess the key here is to then somehow write a script/bot that would log in chatters using the same screen names as they do on the associated forum. I'd then have to have it check if the user has any kind of moderator power on the forum, because I'd want such users to get some sort of "op" status in the IRC chat.
As you may have all suspected by now, I'm highly unfamiliar with IRC in particular. I've heard of it of course, but I've only actually used it once.
So I have a couple possibly dumb questions about it:
1) Does there exist an "op"/chat mod status, where the following is true (or can be set?):
- Can kick out and/or ban any user that doesn't have any sort of chat mod/"op" status.
- Can't kick out and/or ban anyone who does have any sort of chat mod/"op" status.
- Doesn't have the power to promote or demote anyone else from "op"/chat mod status?
I'd rather it be defined through a certain script where any moderators on the associated forum will get this status, that and I'd like to be the only one who has any control over who gets the status or not.
What I wish to avoid, is that if a couple moderators don't like one another, I don't want them to be able to take any direct action against one another. Any complaints would instead have to be presented to me.
2) Could a PHP script be used to handle the IRC login, and to do at least part of the work involved in assigning the appropriate status to a user who logs in?
Ideally, it'd be automatic. That is, if I add a moderator to the associated forum, they would automatically get the status in the chat as well.
I'm sorry for asking so many questions here, but I appreciate people being patient and IRC is quite new to me. |
