Phergie, An IRC (and XMPP) Bot
- 1. Phergie A PHP IRC (and XMPP) Bot
- 2. Short History Originally written by Matthew Turland (Elazar) as a replacement for the Ai bot in the #phpc IRC channel, written in PHP so users could contribute. Completely re-written version 2.0 released in January 2010. 52 forks, 104 watchers on GitHub.
- 3. Plugins or: she doesn't look like much All of Phergie's functionality is provided by plugins. The bot itself just receives messages and passes them on to plugins for handling. Examples include: Google, Twitter, Remind, Karma, Beer, Redmine, Url
- 5. Writing Plugins Really easy Extend the Command plugin for doing commands, or the abstract class for more general functionality. Helper plugins for doing Http requests, etc.
- 6. The XMPP Driver Phergie 2.0 refactored the IRC connection handling as a driver. Namesco had already installed an XMPP server. Phergie's functionality looked useful. So I wrote an XMPP driver.
- 7. Proved to be amazingly easy to implement. New classes for the connection, the host mask and events. Now running reliably on our internal chat server, working towards a public release. xmpp branch on my fork: http://github.com/alexmace/phergie
- 8. Redmine Plugin Posts details of tickets mentioned in chat. Plan to extend to time tracking, issue assignment, sprint information. Working towards integration into core release of Phergie. Very easy to write similar plugin for your preferred issue tracking software.
- 9. Links Phergie - phergie.org GitHub - http://github.com/phergie IRC - #phergie on Freenode Elazar - twitter.com/elazar