Comments on: How to check online status for AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, Skype and ICQ users

By: shresth

shresth — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:01:05 +0000

hi there
i have download the skype status php file but not know how to run this file or what to do with it.
Pls help me.
TIA

By: lili_lita

lili_lita — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:15:02 +0000

Hi there, I was so glad I found this site and downloaded all the check phps, but none of them worked! Why is that? Old code? Could you please update and fix it?

I tried skype and icq – nothing. Skype shows only offline and ICQ shows only online statuses, doesn't matter if the user IS really online/offline.

PLEASE, write me an email or post here!

By: Gabe

Gabe — Thu, 24 May 2007 11:28:10 +0000

Its actually very simple if you want to write this yourself without using the classes at PHPClasses.org.

Just use fsockopen() to connect to port 5222 of a domain where there is a Jabber server running.

eg:

$fp = fsockopen('jabber.org' 5222);

use fwrite() to send it the right XML stanzas that will log your friend in and check your status. (Your friend being a jabber account you set up as your friend). If the jabber server supports msn, yahoo transports, you can check your status on that too…

An example of the XML stanzas to send is here: http://www.saint-andre.com/jabber/telnet.txt