Following up on my last post about the updated sendMsg script, I have another update available.
This update will now catch error 800 from the server. The server imposes a limit of creating 8 IM sessions in any 60 second period and will throw this error if you try calling createSession a 9th time. As such, the script is not suited for sending messages to more than 8 contacts in the same login session. All other changes are programming improvements.
This will be the final update for a while, if there are any major bugs reported I will fix them, otherwise consider this stable.
Download and check out Troubleshooting phpListGrab if you are having connecting problems (phpListGrab uses the same code base). I will also be posting more troubleshooting information for other problems I have recently discovered with server configuration compatibility.
The script I created over two years ago to send a message using PHP has gained quite a lot of exposure over the last few months, and a common request I have been getting is the ability to send messages to more than one user.
Over the weekend I modified the class with the following changes:
- Function to manually create an IM session with a user.
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- Function to send a message on the newest IM session.
- Font face and colour support for the sendMessage() function.
- Better error handling when connecting to the messenger server.
- simpleSend() function to send a single message like the original version.
- error property to get socket error.
After just four days of being online, IMified’s Windows Live Messenger bot reached service limits, preventing new users from adding it and seeing its online presence. A week later they were turned down for requests to remove the limit for the service so the bot remained in a problematic state.
The latest blog entry states the issue with Microsoft is still up in the air, but it appears Microsoft isn’t so evil after all, listens to customers, and opened the bot up.
imified@imified.com is currently responding normally and appearing online for new users, the address on the homepage is also no longer striked out, so hopefully this will be the last this bots problems for a while.
IMified is a new service that allows you to access various Web applications via your instant messaging client though a special bot.
Online services it currently supports include:
- 30Boxes
- Backpack
- Basecamp
- Blogger
- Google Calendar
- MovableType
- RemembertheMilk
- Salesforce
- TypePad
- Wordpress
Add imified@imified.com and send it a message to get started.
As my first experience with this service, I’m currently typing out this post into Windows Live Messenger - all I had to do was enter my Wordpress login details at the IMified site and it was setup for posting.
How it went: Two problems - firstly, I didn’t have enough space in the IM window edit box for the whole post, so I had to come to the site and paste the rest. Second, it stripped the hyper link to the site at the start of the post.
Microsoft’s Invasion of the Robots contest came to a close on the 15th of September, and this week the winners were announced on the MSDN Forums.
Out of 53 submissions, the grand prize went to LiveBot by Juzzi, who originally posted about the competition on the forums back in May, and he was also the winner of the World Best App competition. That’s dedication!
First prize went to Mother Nature, a bot which lets you “find and research national parks closest to you for a day outside in the fressh air and wilderness”. It seems to be having problems at the moment, and messages aren’t getting through to it.
Old favourite Spleak came in as one of the second place winners.
Take a look at Todd Biggs’ post with a full list of the winners, and what they won.
