How do they do that???

Hey how do you add instant messaging to your website. For instance if you go to some websites they let you get a free membership and that gives you an email account AND instant messenger. The IM knows when you are logged in etc. HOW DO THEY DO THAT? Where can I get info on doing this???

THANKS!
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not hundread % sure what u mean, but if ur on about Private MEssagin like this, its just stored in a mysql database and when u log in its pulled out.

Other wise Java would do the trick.

Any interesting thing i saw, i think, was that PhPBB, supports sending a message to AOL and/ or yahoo using DLL's

I don't know how to describe it to you except ---I went to this website and when you become a member you can log into the website to have access to member only stuff---an instant messenger will pop up and you can see how many people are logged on the site (they all have access to the IM) and you can just start using the IM. The IM isn't MSN or AOL---I don't think---it LOOKS JUST like it but it has the website name on it---i.e. the website is URL well the IM will come up and be Whatever Messenger. This must be some canned script for running the IM or something---just wondering if anyone knew something about it!

THANKS!!

I know what you mean. I want to do the same thing.

The most obvious answer I can find is after you sign-up, or login, it opens a new window and has a "buddy list" control or text buddy list on it, it then refreshes every so often and if you have a new message (stored in a database) it pops up a window and lets you know about it (it checks every few seconds so there is not that big of a delay).. I am doing this exact thing with my website, which won't be up for a few months because of the massive size of the project, but i'm 10% complete with it (i got the buddy list and refreshing done, thats bout it) but its really not as hard as it seems. and I am doing it in PHP & MySQL, i'm sure it would be in real time if you used flash or java.

hey help me out. CHeck my thread in the PHP forum. It's about PHP IM.